Hunegund

Hunegund was betrothed to a Frankish nobleman, but while travelling with him to Rome she chose the monastic life instead. She returned to France and entered the convent of Homblières, where she built a church and became abbess, being regarded as the founder of the house. Her betrothed gave to the convent all he would have given to a wife, became a priest and looked after her as a faithful friend.

She reposed around the year 690. Her relics were translated to the church she had built in 946. In the tenth century two texts were written about her life and miracles, and in the time of the Hundred Years War her relics were translated again. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 25 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 7 September of the civil calendar.