Saint Opportuna
- Memorial
- 22 April
- Profile
- Sister of Saint Chrodegang.
Niece of Saint Lanthilda.
Benedictine nun and abbess at the convent near Almenèches, taking the veil from her brother.
Legend says that a peasant stole a donkey from the convent and refused to acknowledge his crime.
Opportuna turned it over to God; the next day the farmer's field was sown with salt.
The peasant returned the donkey AND gave the nuns the field.
- Born
- at castle of Exmes, Argentan, Normandy, France
- Died
- 22 April 770 from a brief illness compounded by grief from the death of her brother;
relics taken to the priory of Moussy, France, in 1009, and then to Senlis;
in 1374 her right arm and a rib were taken to Paris to a church built in her honor;
part of her head remains at Moussy;
her left arm and part of her skull are at Almenesches; one jaw is in the priory of Saint Chrodegang at Isle-Adam
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