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ST CLOTILDA, QUEEN OF FRANCE - 3 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 3rd of June WELCOME! SAINT CLOTILDA, QUEEN OF FRANCE    Saint Clotilda (Clotildis) was daughter of Chilperic, younger brother to Gondebald, the tyrannical king of Burgundy, who put him, his wife, and the rest of his brothers, except one, to death in order to usurp their dominions. In this massacre he spared Chilperic’s two fair daughters, then in their infancy.  SURVIVORS OF THE MASSACRE One of them became afterwards a nun; the other named Clotildis was brought up in her uncle’s court, and by a singular providence, was instructed in the Catholic religion, though she was educated in the midst of Arians. It was her happiness in the true faith, to be inspired from the cradle with a contempt and disgust of a treacherous world, which sentiments she cherished and improved by the most fervent exercises of religion. Though she saw herself surrounded with all the charms of the world, and was from her infancy its idol, y...