Saint Alice was a 13th-century Cistercian lay sister who lived in the Duchy of Brabant. Born in Schaerbeek around 1220, she was educated at La Cambre Abbey, where she remained until her death in 1250. After contracting leprosy at approximately twenty years of age, she lived in isolation, eventually suffering from both paralysis and blindness. She is remembered for her intense devotion and for offering her physical suffering for the salvation of others. She is venerated as a patron saint of the blind and the paralyzed.