Sicilde of Cenomannia

Sicilde of Cenomannia was a virgin of the province of Cenomannia (now Maine, with the city of Le Mans) in Gaul. The Bollandists name her on 22 June; their notice is short, in seven paragraphs.

Very little is known about her. Tradition holds her to have been the servant of Saint Osmanna, counted among the Irish saints, who crossed from Great Britain into Gaul; Sicilde accompanied her, it is thought, to the country of the Cenomanni. The Petits Bollandistes call her Sainte Aclythenis or Sicildis, popularly Sainte Seraute or Cérotte, and say she lived in the second half of the seventh century. It has been conjectured that she may be the same as a nun Siccidis (Sicildis or Sichildis), daughter of Adalsquarius and Aneglia. A church bearing her name, corrupted to Sainte Serolde, stood near the monastery of Anisola; in an old manuscript martyrology of Usuard her feast was entered on 22 June. The day follows the Julian calendar. She is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.