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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Benedicta and Cecilia

Sisters of royal birth from Lotharingia, abbesses of a convent.

Feast
August 17old style August 30
Era
10th century
Place
Lorraine
Order
Venerables

Life

Benedicta and Cecilia were two sisters of royal birth from Lotharingia, daughters of the king of that land. They entered the monastic life and were abbesses in turn of the convent of Susteren on the Rhine in Germany in the tenth century. They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Their commemoration falls on 17 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 30 August of the civil calendar. We have no further details of their lives.

Commemorated the same day August 17