Saint Sigrada

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Saint Sigrada
Widow
Born Kingdom of Burgundy
Diedc. 679 AD
Soissons, Neustria
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Canonized Pre-Congregation
Feast August 8 (Roman Catholicism, [1] Eastern Orthodoxy; [2] August 4 (France) [3] :73

Sigrada of Alsace (French: Sigrade d'Alsace; died c. 679 AD) was a Franco-Burgundian countess and mother of Ss. Warin, [4] [5] and Leodegar, [6] and grandmother of St. Leudwinus. [7]

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Life

Hagiographies tend not to mention where she was born, but given that she is popularly known as Sigrada of Alsace, she was probably Alsatian. [8] She was from the Syagrii family of Gallo-Roman Patricians. Her brother was Bishop Dido (also called Desiderius) of Poitiers. She married Count Bodilon of Poitiers  [ it ] and gave birth to Warin and Leodegar in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy. Through Warin, who inherited the County of Poitiers, she became the ancestor of the Franco-Lombard dynasty of the Widonids (also called the Lambertiners).

She sent Warin to be educated at the court of Chlothar II, [9] while she arranged for Leodegar to be educated under her brother Dido's tutelage. [4] Leodegar quickly rose to prominence as an archdeacon and priest-monk responsible for a major Benedictine reform. He caught the attention of the nobility and became embroiled in the complex politics of Merovingian partition. His political stances were used as a pretext by his rival Ebroin to begin persecuting him and his family, including Sigrada. [9] [5] She was shut up in the monastery of Notre-Dame de Soissons by Ebroin. [2] She had all her property taken away and received a letter describing all the tortures her sons were subjected to. [2] She died shortly after both her sons were martyred.

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