ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 22nd of April WELCOME! SAINT OPPORTUNA, VIRGIN AND ABBESS Saint Opportuna was virgin and Abbess of Montreuil, three miles from Seez, an episcopal see in Normandy, of which her brother, St Chrodegang, was bishop. SHE WAS ST CHRODEGANG'S SISTER This holy prelate, returning from a pilgrimage of devotion which he had made to Rome and other holy places, went to pay a visit to his cousin, St Lantildis, abbess of Almanesches, in his diocese; but was murdered in the way, at Normant, on September 3, 769, by the contrivance of Chrodobert, a powerful relation, to whom he had intrusted the administration of his temporalities during his absence. He is honoured in the Breviary of Seez on the day of his death: his head is enshrined in the abbey of St Martin in the Fields, at Paris, and his body in the priory of Isle-Adam upon the Oise, near Pontoise. A MODEL OF HUMILITY, OBEDIENCE, MORTIFICATION, AND PRAYER St Opportuna d...