Venerable
Sigeberge
A saint of the West, honored in the age of the undivided Church.
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- Feast
- August 12old style August 25
- Era
- 7th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Sigeberge is counted among the first abbesses of Remiremont in the 7th century, when the abbey still stood on the Saint-Mont above the present settlement. She is venerated in the Western Church.
According to tradition she lost her sight from weeping over the Passion of Christ, and was therefore called Cecilia (from the Latin caecilia, blind). The miracles attributed to her invocation and to her relics, in curing diseases of the eyes, also gave her the names Clara or Clarissa. In the Gregorian calendar she has a local feast on 12 August and is invoked under various names: Saint Cecilia, Saint Clara or Saint Clarissa.
The sources say no more of her life, and the details rest largely on tradition.
Commemorated the same day August 12
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John NikolskyHieromartyr · PriestAug 12- Gratilian of Falerii NoviMartyrAug 12
- Rufus of CapuaHieromartyr · Bishop of CapuaAug 12
- Palamon of the ThebaidVenerable · Hermit of the ThebaidAug 12
- Alexander Arapov of BelogorskVenerable MartyrAug 12
- Alexis LopatinHieromartyrAug 12
- Anicetus of NicomediaMartyrAug 12
- Anthony Arapov of BelogorskVenerable MartyrAug 12
- Arcadius Noskov of BelogorskVenerable MartyrAug 12
- Barnabas Nadezhdin of BelogoryeVenerable MartyrAug 12
- Basil InfantievHieromartyrAug 12