Scariberge

Saint Scariberge is a saint of the 6th century, remembered in the Yvelines region on 18 July, and sometimes on 2 or 12 October. She is venerated in the Western Church.

She is said to have been the daughter of Landehilde, sister of Clovis, and so a niece of the Frankish king. She married Arnoul of Yvelines; the two made vows of chastity and separated so that Arnoul could go as a missionary. He was killed at Reims, in the rue du Barbâtre, by former servants of Scariberge, whom she had dismissed when she entered a convent.

In some versions Scariberge, following the wishes of her dead husband, wanted to carry his body to Tours, but the convoy was blocked and she decided to build him a tomb there, in the place now called Saint-⁠Arnoult-⁠en-⁠Yvelines; in others, she found his remains and then buried them. She built nearby an oratory dedicated to Saint Remigius and a cell where she withdrew, walking regularly to Saint-⁠Arnoult. On 6 May 1967 her remains were gathered with those of Arnoul in a reliquary in the church of Saint-⁠Arnoult.