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…they were nearly all scattered by the Huguenots, who pillaged the churches of Poitiers in 1562, but some have been preserved, and are now in the cathedral of Poitiers.

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December 1 · Virgin

St. Florentia

St. Florentia

…they were nearly all scattered by the Huguenots, who pillaged the churches of Poitiers in 1562, but some have been preserved, and are now in the cathedral of Poitiers.

Traditional feast

December 1
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin

Early life

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

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 29 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

…they were nearly all scattered by the Huguenots, who pillaged the churches of Poitiers in 1562, but some have been preserved, and are now in the cathedral of Poitiers.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on December 1 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 29 words

Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — Lessons in the Poitiers Breviary; historically worthless.] j|HE legend told of this saint is that when, in 359, S. Hilary in exile traversed Isauria on his way to attend a council at Seleucia, as he entered the church of a little village, a young girl precipitated herself at his feet, and conjured him to regenerate her and associate her with him in his ministry. He had her baptized, and when he returned to Arles, she followed him. He found it convenient ^o put her under restraint, and he confided the impetuous enthusiast to S. Triasia, who was living as a solitary at Combli, near his estate at Celle-l’Ev^cout. Her prayers, fasting, and vigils, exhausted her frame, and she died before the prelate, on December 1, 367. The relics were translated from Combli to Poitiers in the nth century, VOL. XV. I [Dec. x.

…they were nearly all scattered by the Huguenots, who pillaged the churches of Poitiers in 1562, but some have been preserved, and are now in the cathedral of Poitiers.

Feast days

Feast: December 1

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Florentia's story, and a nudge to keep going.

Also on December 1
A

St. Algeric of Verdun

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E

St. Eligius of Noyon

December 1 · Bishop
← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

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.