A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
December 12
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 23 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Bertoara founded a monastery for women at Bourges, under the rule of S. Columbanus. She entered it herself, and died in the community.
Build up the community you belong to. This life was lived with and for a community.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.
Bertoara founded a monastery for women at Bourges, under the rule of S. Columbanus [Irish monk (d. 615) who founded monasteries in France and Italy]. She entered it herself, and died in the community.
Feast: December 12
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Bertoara's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.