Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Othilia

SHE was a native of Strasburg, and of an illustrious family, but was baptized at Ratisbon, by St. Erhard, bishop of that see. Her father erected a great nunnery in Alsace, in which Othilia conducted one hundred and thirty holy nuns in the paths of Christian perfection, and died in 772. See Canisius, Raderus, t. 4. p. 7. Ado, Molanus, and the Roman Martyrology on the 13th of December.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints

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Mary De Voe
Wednesday, December 13, AD 2023 10:45am

 Her father erected a great nunnery in Alsace, in which Othilia conducted one hundred and thirty holy nuns in the paths of Christian perfection”
Build it and they will come.

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