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Saint Bertha Abbess of Val d’Or near Avenay Reims d. c. 690.Bertha was the wife of Saint Gumbert Lord of Champenois a nobleman of royal blood. Gumbert built a nunnery for his wife and her maidens at Avenay and retired himself to a monastery on the coast where he was soon afterwards put to death by pagan marauders. A legend is that when the people of Avenay suffered from a lack of water St.