ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 16th of March WELCOME! SAINT EUSEBIA, ABBESS Saint Eusebia's parents were Saint Adalbald [Adalbert] and Saint Rictrudes (Richtrudis) . After the death of the first, the mother went with her three daughters Clotsinde (Clotsendis), Adalsindis and Eusebia to the Marchiennes monastery in French Flanders (in the bishopric of Arras), took the veil there and became abbess. SHE BECAME ABBESS For her education, she gave her daughter Eusebia to the nearby monastery of Hamai, where Adalbald 's grandmother, Saint Gertrude , was abbess. After Gertrude 's death in 655, the only 12-year-old Eusebia was elected abbess, presumably because her father was one of the prominent personages in the empire. Because Eusebia was very young for such a position of responsibility, her mother took her back to have her around herself for a while. SHE FAITHFULLY ADMINISTERED HER OFFICE Eusebia, having ...