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Venerable

Aurea of Boves

A holy woman honored at Boves in Picardy.

Feast
October 6old style October 19
Era
8th century
Place
Boves

Life

Saint Aurea of Boves was, in the eighth century, a young girl of Amiens in France, who became a nun at Boves and rose to be abbess of a large convent. She is commemorated on 6 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of her life.

Commemorated the same day October 6