(DATE UNCERTAIN, BUT PROBABLY IN THE 5TH CENT.)
[Gallican Martyrology. Authority:--S. Gregory of Tours, De Gloria
Confess., c. 34.]
This pious virgin was a native of Clermont, in Auvergne, where she
served God like Anna, constantly attending in the temple. Very little
is known of her life, which flowed on in calm simplicity, and would
hardly have required a more particular notice than the insertion of
her name, were it not for one graceful incident narrated by S. Gregory
of Tours, to the effect that as her body was being carried to the
cathedral for sepulture, a great company of doves or pigeons fluttered
above the mourning train, and settled on the roof of the minster,
whilst the last rites were being performed; and this the pious and
simple people regarded as a token of divine favour.