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Venerable Martyr

Eusebia of Saint-⁠Cyr

An abbess at Marseille, slain by the Saracens with her nuns around 731.

Feast
September 20old style October 3
Reposed
7318th century
Place
Saint-⁠Cyr
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Eusebia of Saint-⁠Cyr was the abbess of a convent in Marseille in France. Around 731 she was martyred by the Saracens at Saint-⁠Cyr, together with some forty of her nuns. She is commemorated on 20 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details.

Commemorated the same day September 20