Saint Opportuna of Montreuil

Saint Opportuna of Montreuil

聖奧保多娜

紀念日 / Memorial date

四月二十二日

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April 22

Saint Opportuna of Montreuil

Saint Opportuna of Montreuil

聖奧保多娜

紀念日:

四月二十二日

Memorial Date:

April 22

聖奧保多娜 (貞女、女修院院長)

聖女奧保多娜原籍法國諾曼田,入本篤會女修院修道;她的胞兄柯德剛是當地主教,親手頒授會衣給她。

奧保多娜在修院內謙遜、服從,勤操苦行;之後被選為院長。

胞兄柯德剛769年被人暗殺;聖女傷痛不已,不久患病,於770年也安逝主懷。

奧保多娜死後,顯有奇蹟甚多。

祈禱

全能永生的天主,你恩賜聖奧保多娜以修道生活為你作證。求你恩賜我們,因她的榜樣,並靠你的恩寵,誠心事奉你。因你的聖子、我們的主耶穌基督,他和你及聖神,是唯一天主,永生永王。亞孟。

Saint Opportuna of Montreuil, Virgin and Abbess

St. Opportuna was from Montreuil, and was a French Benedictine Nun and Abbess.  When she was a young girl, Opportuna became a Benedictine Nun at the convent called the Monasteriolum, where her cousin St. Lantildis was Abbess. She took the veil from her brother, St. Chrodegang, the Bishop of Seez. Later, Opportuna became Abbess. She was viewed, as a true mother to all her Nuns, correcting their faults, with words, not blows. 

Opportuna’s vita, records that once a peasant stole a donkey from the convent and refused to acknowledge his crime. Opportuna turned the matter over to God, and the next day the farmer’s field was sown with salt. The repentant peasant returned the donkey and gave the Nuns the field.  

Opportuna died on April 22, 770. Some legends tell that her death was from a brief illness which was compounded by grief from the death of her brother, Bishop Chrodegang on September 3, 769.

St. Opportuna did not work great miracles in her lifetime, but after death, many miracles were wrought at her tomb. She extended her protection to the community and her Nuns beyond death.   

Prayer

St. Opportuna of Montreuil, pray for us.