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Virgin, shepherdess, born Pibrac, near Toulouse, France, 1579; died there, 1601.
She was a cripple, and passed her short life tending sheep.
Her only food was bread and water, her bed a litter of vine branches; she was noted for her intense devotion to Our Lady and the Blessed Sacrament.
Forty-three years after her death her body was found perfectly intact; and a series of cures was wrought at her relics.
Represented in art with a shepherd's crook or a distaff; a watchdog, a sheep, or with flowers in her apron.
Canonized, 1867.
Relics at Pibrac, France.
Feast, 15 June.
New Catholic Dictionary
