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Venerable

Clotsindis

Daughter of Saint Rictrude and Abbess of Marchiennes in Flanders.

Feast
June 30old style July 13
Reposed
7148th century

Life

Saint Clotsindis (Clotsend) was the daughter of Saint Adalbald and Saint Rictrudis, who founded the convent of Marchiennes in northern France. She succeeded her mother as the second abbess. She was born around 635 and reposed in the year 714.

She is commemorated on 30 June as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of her life.

Commemorated the same day June 30