Saint Bathild
![[Saint Bathild]](saintb32.jpg "jpg illustration of Saint Bathild dispensing alms to the poor; taken from 'Pictoria Lives of the Saints', 1892; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Bathildes
Bathildis
- Memorial
- 30 January
- Profile
- Kidnapped in her youth from her native England and sold into slavery in France to Erkenwald, the Mayor of the Palace of King Clovis II.
When grown, she was placed in charge of the household.
Married King Clovis II in 649.
Queen.
Mother of three sons, all of whom became kings: Clotaire III, Childeric II and Thierry I.
She used her royal position to protect the Church, and help the poor.
Widowed in 655.
Regent.
Upon taking her late husband's power, she immediately forbade the enslavement of Christians.
Endowed religious houses, and helped the work of Saint Eligius.
In 665, when her son Clotaire was 15, she handed the throne over to him, and entered the convent of Chelles, spending the rest of her life in prayer and care of the sick.
- Died
- 30 January 680, of natural causes;
buried in the Abbey of Chelles
- Canonized
- by Pope Nicholas I
- Patronage
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against bodily ills
against illness
against sick people
against sickness
children
widows
- Representation
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crowned nun often performing menial tasks or giving alms to the poor
ladder extending into heaven
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
Catholic Information Network
Catholic Online
New Catholic Dictionary
Vietnamese Eucharistic Youth Society
Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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