Saint Clotilde

Also known as: Clotilda
Memorial: 3 June
Profile: Daughter of King Chilperic of Burgundy. Married young to King Clovis of the Salian Franks. 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 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
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
woman in a crown, holding a church
Additional Information: Catholic Encyclopedia, by Godefroid Kurth
Christian Biographies, by James E Keifer
Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Miniature Stories of the Saints, by Father Daniel A Lord, SJ
New Catholic Dictionary
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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