St. Eusebia

Feastday: March 16
Death: 680

Benedictine abbess, the daughter of Sts. Adalbald and Rictrudis. She was sent as a child to her great grandmother, St. Gertrude, the abbess of Hamage Abbey in France. Her father had been murdered in 652, and her mother had sent her there for safety. She was elected abbess at the age of twelve, and her mother, by then abbess of Merchiennes, brought her and her community into her care. Eusebia and her nuns later returned to Hamage Abbey.

St. Eusebia may refer to:

  • Saint Xenia the Righteous of Rome (died 5th-century AD), Orthodox saint with baptismal name Eusebia
  • Bl. Eusebia Palomino Yenes (15 December 1899 – 10 February 1935), Spanish Roman Catholic nun and a professed member from the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco.
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Eusebia Eusebia Death: 680
Death: 680