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Saint Pharaildis or Pharailde (Dutch: Veerle) is an 8th-century Belgian saint in Roman Catholicism and patron saint of Ghent. Her dates are imprecise but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety.Pharaildis was married against her will at a young age with a nobleman even after having made a private vow of virginity. Her husband insisted that she was married to him and her sexual fidelity was owed to him not God.