Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authority A Life by an anonymous writer little posterior, if not contemporary.] S. Salaberga was born at Omey, near Langres, of noble and virtuous parents. S. Eustasius, on his return from Bavaria, received hospitality from her parents. The venerable abbot took the children in his arms to bless them. Salaberga was blind; he anointed her eyes with blessed oil, and healed her. In gratitude the young girl promised the saint to dedicate her virginity to God. But her parents had other views for her, and they married her to a noble named Rickeran. Two months after their marriage she lost her husband; but her father, supported by the authority of King Dagobert, married her to Earl Baso, and by him she became the mother of five children. She founded a monastery at Laon, by the advice of Waldbert, Abbot of Luxeuil. It was a magnificent abbey containing seven churches, and was a double community of monks and nuns, the latter, to the number of three hundred, were divided into choirs, so as to sing night and day incessantly the praise of God; this perpetual office was called Laics percnnis. S. Odilia and her husband, Leutvin Bodo, renounced the world, and placed themselves under the direction of S. Salaberga, who, with her husband's consent, had retired to the monastery and constituted herself abbess. Through the last two years of her life Salaberga suffered excruciating pains, which she bore with great fortitude. She died in 654, and left her daughter Anslrude, aged twenty, to rule the abbey in her place.