ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 11th August WELCOME! SAINT RUSTICULA, ABBESS (Her memorial is also given as August 10, August 16, May 16, September 1). The holy Abbess Rusticula (Rustirnia, Rusticola) is revered at Arles, where she lived and worked in the Grand Monastery. SHE WAS DESCENDED FROM THE NOBLE FAMILY MARTIER She is also called Martia (Marcia) in her biography, which was written by an almost contemporary priest named Florentius Gallus, because she was descended from the noble family Martier. She was born in Vaison in Provence in 555 and had an older brother. She had hardly seen the light of day when her father died. Her physical attractiveness and her talents tempted a certain Cheran, a confidante of King Guntram - probably not without the mother's prior knowledge - to kidnap her. SHE ESCAPED THE KIDNAPPER'S HANDS By special divine providence she escaped the kidnapper's hands and, on the advice of Bishop Syagrius of Autun...