Magnentia

Magnentia (in French Magnance de Bourgogne) was born at Ravenna in Italy and died in 448 in Burgundy, near the present village of Sainte-⁠Magnance. She was one of the five women chosen at Ravenna to accompany the body of Bishop Germanus as far as Auxerre. He had died in 448 at Ravenna, where he had come to obtain from the emperor Valentinian III the ratification of a peace treaty, and had expressed the wish to be buried in his own city, Auxerre.

Magnentia fell ill on the way, died and was buried at the side of the Via Agrippa. Her grave was found again in the 7th century, after the dream of a pilgrim, and her body was exhumed and the relics taken to the church of the neighbouring village of Saint-⁠Pierre de Cordois, which then took the name Sainte-⁠Magnance. In 2009 a monument showing her with Saint Germanus of Auxerre was set up on the Nationale 6, at the presumed site of the grave. A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West; the source gives no day of commemoration.