ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 21st of May WELCOME! GISELA, ABBESS OF CHELLES Église Saint-André de Chelles Gisela - Meaning of the Name Gisela (Itisburga), Virgin and Abbess, is commemorated on May 21. She was a sister of Charles the Great ( Charlemagne ). (Information from Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 440) Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org *** Gisela, born in A.D. 757, was a Frankish princess and abbess, the daughter of Pepin the Short and his wife Bertrada of Laon . One of Pepin's three surviving children; she was the sister of Charlemagne and Carloman. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard states that Gisela had been dedicated to religion since her childhood. She became a nun at Chelles Abbey, where she was eventually made abbess....