Gontrude

Holy Martyr Gontrude is a saint of the old diocese of Toul, in present-⁠day Lorraine, honored on 3 October. Tradition calls her a sister in religion of Eucharius, Elophe and Libarius and says she died on 6 October 362 in a persecution under the emperor Julian.

She was buried in a chapel dedicated to Saint Maurice at Hagnéville, near Bulgnéville, in the Vosges. At her tomb, where the relics lie in a gilded copper shrine, she is greatly honored and celebrated on 6 October. Parts of her relics were also placed in a shrine in the old church of Musson in Belgium, in the province of Luxembourg. Gontrude is a Germanic name common in Merovingian and Carolingian times. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated locally.