Her dates are imprecise, but she lived to a great age and died on January 5 at ninety.

[3] Pharaildis was born in Ghent, the daughter of Witger, Duke of Lorraine and his wife Amalberga of Maubeuge.

[4] Pharaildis was married against her will at a young age with a nobleman, even after having made a private vow of virginity.

About the year 754, Agilfrid, Abbot of Saint Bavo's Abbey, acquired her relics and brought them to Ghent.

Legend says that Pharaildis caused a well to spring up whose waters cured sick children,[2] turned some bread hidden by a miserly woman into stone,[6] and there are accounts of a "goose miracle," in which Pharaildis resuscitated a cooked bird working only from its skin and bones.