Blessed Beatrix of Lens

Memorial

• 19 January

Profile

Founded the Benedictine Cistercian monastery of Epinklieu near Mons, Belgium and lived the rest of her life as a nun there.

Born

• Lens, diocese of Arras, France

Died

• after 1216 of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Beatrix of Lens“. Saints.SQPN.com. 18 January 2013. Web. 19 June 2013. <>