Modesta

The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 13, November, Pt. 1 · S. MODESTA, V. ABSS.

S. MODESTA, V. ABSS.

(ABOUT A.D. 680.)

[Roman, Gallican, and Benedictine Martyrologies. At Tr&ves on Oct 6. Authority : — Mention in the Life of S. Gertrude.]

S. Modesta was the niece of S. Modoald, bishop of Trfeves, and of the blessed Itta, wife of Pepin of Landen. She took the veil in the monastery of Saint Mont, and spent about twenty years in it She was then placed at the head of a swarm of holy virgins whom the abbess of Saint Mont sent from the hive, to settle at Trfeves in the monastery of Horren, so called because Dagobert, king of Austrasia, gave to the new community as their quarters the old Roman public granary, called in Latin Horrcum . S. Irmina,

daughter of Dagobert, received the veil from the hands of S. Modesta. The holy abbess was favoured with extraordi- nary graces; she knew, by revelation, the hour when S. Gertrude of Nivelles, her cousin, died. On the morrow she spoke of it to Clodulf, bishop of Trfeves, who verified it. She died about a.d. 680, and was succeeded by S. Irmina.

Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

Treviris sanctae Modestae Virginis.