Alpaïs of Cudot

Alpaïs (Alpaida, Alpaidis) of Cudot (died 1211) is venerated by the Catholic Church as a Blessed. Born into a peasant family of Cudot, in the diocese of Sens, she contracted leprosy at a young age. Her vita was written c. 1180 by the monk Peter of the nearby Cistercian monastery of Les Écharlis.

For the mother of Charles Martel, see Alpaida.

She denied herself food, and it is said that for a long time her only nourishment was the Eucharist. A story related of her states that once, she was brought pieces of pork to suck on by the prior of Cudot. Horrified by this, she sent the pork morsels to an old woman of the district to whom she usually sent table scraps and who was even poorer than she was.: 134 

Her cultus was confirmed by Pius IX in 1874. Her remains lay in the Church of Notre-Dame, Cudot.

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