Opportuna being visited by the Virgin on her deathbed, engraving by Jacques Callot (c. 1630)
Abbess and Virgin
Born
unknown at the castle of Exmes, Argentan, near Ayesmes, Normandy, France
Died
22 April 770 Montreuil, France
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church
Feast
22 April
Attributes
Carrying an abbess's crozier and a casket of relics; with the Virgin appearing at her deathbed; as a princess with a basket of cherries and the fleur-de-lys
Patronage
Diocese of Séez
Opportuna of Montreuil (died 770) was a Frankish Benedictine nun and abbess. A Vita et miracula Sanctae Opportunae was written within a century of her death (c. 885–88) by Adalhelm (later rendered Adelin), bishop of Séez, who believed he owed his life and his see to Opportuna.[1]
^Julia M. H. Smith, "The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920" Past and Present No. 146 (February 1995), pp. 3-37.
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