Sigolena of Albi

Sigolena of Albi (fl. 7th. c.) was a French deaconess and saint from Albi. Her feast day is July 24.

Sigolena was born into a noble family of Aquitaine.[1]

She desired a chaste marriage and offered her husband all of her possessions to "gain the freedom of her body". When she was 24, he died unexpectedly and she had difficulties convincing her parents she did not want to marry again. Eventually, she was able to persuade her father to build her a convent.[2]

Her church in Metz was situated near that of Saint Ferreolus of Besançon.[3] Sigolena's biography was written by an anonymous author.[4]

References

1. Dunbar, Agnes Baillie Cunninghame (1905). "St. Sigolena". A Dictionary of Saintly Women, Volume 2. Bell. p. 224. Sigolena of Albi.
2. Wemple, Suzanne Fonay (1985). Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 142, 151. ISBN 978-0-8122-1209-9.
3. Claussen, M.A. (2004). The Reform of the Frankish Church: Chrodegang of Metz and the Regula Canonicorum in the Eighth Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-0-521-83931-0.
4. York, Laura (2002). "Sigolena of Albi (fl. 7th c.)". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN 0-7876-4074-3.

Further reading

• Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, ed. A History of Women in the West, vol. II: Silences of the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Belknap-Harvard, 1992.