Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authority A life by Gregory of Tours, "Vitae Patrum,” c. 19.] Monegunda, or S. Mone, as she is called at Tours, was bom at Chartres, where also she was married. The early loss of her two daughters so affected her, that she resolved to seclude herself from the world, and having wrung his consent from her husband, she retired into a cell near the church, where she received light only through a small window. A young girl ministered to her, bringing her food every morning, but somewhat wearied with the monotony of her task, the girl ran off; and left the recluse for five days without food. Gregory of Tours relates that Joiy •.] the snow fell round the cell, and Monegunda put forth her hand from her window, and allowed the snow-flakes to gather and heap up on her palm, then she drew in her hand, and made a pancake of the snow. Adjoining her cell was a little garden in which she walked, and where she tended flowers. After a while she retired to Tours that she might be near the tomb of S. Martin, but finding that people crowded to visit her, her husband brought her back to Chartres. On his death, however, she returned to Tours, and remained there, as a recluse, at the head of a small community, till her death.

The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of S. Monegunda were dispersed when the city was pillaged by the Calvinists in 1562, and none are now known to exist