Saint Clotilde

Also known as

• Clotichilda
• Clotilda
• Croctild
• Crotildes
• Hlotild

Memorial

• 3 June

Profile

Born a princess, the daughter of King Chilperic of Burgundy. Married young to King Clovis of the Salian Franks while he was still a pagan; she brought him to the faith. Queen. Mother of three sons. Led her husband to Christianity in 496. Widow. Following Clovis‘s death in 511, her sons fought for years over the kingdom. To escape the constant murder and intrigue, she retired to Tours, France where she spent her remaining 34 years caring for the poor and sick.

Born

• 475 at Lyons, France

Died

• 545 at Tours, France of natural causes
• buried in the church of Saint Genevieve, Paris, France

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against death of children
• adopted children
• brides
• disappointing children
• exiles
• parenthood
• parents of large families
• people in exile
• queens
• widows

Representation

• with a battle in the background, in memory of the conversion of Clovis following the battle of Soissons
• woman in a crown, holding a church

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia, by Godefroid Kurth
• Christian Biographies, by James E Keifer
• Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Miniature Stories of the Saints, by Father Daniel A Lord, SJ
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Clotilde”. Saints.SQPN.com. 18 August 2010. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-clotilde/>