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Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

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June 28 · Virgin, Abbess

St. Clotsendis

St. Clotsendis

Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Traditional feast

June 28
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin
Abbess

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Building a community where women could live the Gospel together.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Belgian and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority: -Mention in the life o. her mother. S. RictradisJ S. Clotsbndis was a daughter of S. Rictrudis, widow of S. Adalbald, and abbess of Marchiennes. She belonged to that holy family of saints which produced S. Eusebia and S. Adalsendis, her sisters, and her brother, S. Maurontius. After her mother’s death she became abbess of Marchiennes.

Feast days

Feast: June 28

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Sources & notes

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Credits

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.