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.
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