Hune

Saint Hune is a saint of Alsace, born in the 6th century and reposed around 600. She was related to the Duke of Burgundy of the Merovingian age. She is remembered on 15 April in the Western calendar.

According to the golden legend of the medieval hagiographers, she had a hard childhood in a divided aristocratic Frankish family: her father placed her as a cook at the castle of Hunière, like the servants, and there she came to know the friendship of the washerwomen who accompanied her. She lived among people who had remained pagan and kept her Christian faith. She was married by force to an elderly and brutal lord, but kept her virginity and shut herself up in a convent, devoting herself to God. The legend says that in her last years she became a friend of Saint Deodatus, bishop of Nevers.

The village of Hunawihr in Alsace keeps her memory, and a stained-⁠glass window in its church depicts her.