Saint Eustadiola

Having lost her husband, she refused a second marriage, to which her age and great wealth seemed to call her. She devoted herself entirely to the service of God and used her wealth to assist the poor, and to build or adorn churches.

It was first Moûtiers-sous-Bourges, still dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary, that she founded and endowed in the city of Bourges , under Ki ng Dagobert. She gathered there many young women, whom her example had determined to renounce the world. She spent seventy years in admirable abstinence. Her tears flowed night and day, along with her prayers. She made herself all things to all people: none of the duties of piety and charity were foreign to her; she appeased discords, she washed the feet of pilgrims, she was the consoler and mother of the poor, the widows, and the orphans.

She shone with the grace of healings and the gift of miracles. After a long drought, she obtained from God, through her prayers, an abundant rain. More than once, the water with which she had washed her hands or her face restored sight to the blind and health to the infirm. She rendered her soul to God on June 8. Bish op Roch (69 7-727), all the clergy, and all the people followed her funeral; she was buried in the church of Saint-Paul, which sh e had built herself outside the city walls. A priest, named Leopold, recovered hi s sight at her tomb. Many other miracles were also performed there.

Proper of Bourges.