Site logo

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Monegundis, female recluse of Chartres and Tours, mid/late 6th c.

Saint ID

S00150

Reported Death Not Before

557

Reported Death Not After

587

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Hermits/recluses, Miracle-workers in lifetime, Mothers and fathers, Married but sexually abstinent
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00335Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Monegundis (female recluse of Chartres and Tours, mid/late 6th c., S00150): she is presented as a wife who withdrew from the world to devote herself to God, a humble servant of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050), and a miracle worker in life and from her grave. Gregory, Life of the Fathers Book 19, written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Monegundis.
E00350Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Monegundis (female recluse of Chartres and Tours, mid/late 6th c., S00150), presents the saint as a powerful miracle worker, but subservient to *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers 19 (preface, 19.2 & 19.3), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594.
E00351Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Monegundis (female recluse of Chartres and Tours, mid/late 6th c., S00150), recounts the death of the saint, her burial in her cell, and the posthumous miracles at her tomb, some with the use of oil and salt that she had blessed; the support of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050) for her and her community is stressed. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (19.4), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594.
E02448Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry.
E02577Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (24), recounts how *Monegundis (female recluse of Chartres and Tours, mid/late 6th c., S00150) healed people in her lifetime and at her tomb in Tours. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.
E04869The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 2 July.
E05870Gregory of Tours writes the Life of the Fathers, collecting the lives of twenty Gallic bishops, abbots and recluses; written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview/list of the twenty Lives.