Disciola

Disciola was a niece of Saint Salvius, bishop of Albi. She entered very young the abbey of the Holy Cross, founded by Queen Radegund, whose first abbess was then Saint Agnes of Poitiers. She left the memory of a humble and available nun, loved for her modesty, the simplicity of her ways and her careful observance of the rule of her abbey. She died in 583, shortly before Saint Radegund, and is the first saint of the abbey of the Holy Cross. Her tomb is in the crypt of the church of Saint Radegund in Poitiers. She is commemorated on 13 May, the same day as Saint Agnes, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.