St. Humbeline

Humbeline
Feastday: February 12
Death: 1135

Benedictine abbess and younger sister of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, France. Married and socially popular, Humbeline visited her brother and underwent a personal conversion. She received permission from her husband, Guy de Marcy, to enter the Benedictines at Jully les Nonnais, becoming abbess and succeeding her sister in law, Elizabeth. Humbeline died in her brother's arms.

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Humbeline Humbeline Death: 1135
Death: 1135