Blessed Beatrice d’Ornacieux
Also known as
- Beatrice di Ornacieu
- Beatrice of Eymeu
- Beatrix…
- 25 November
- 27 November (diocese of Grenoble, France)
- 13 February (diocese of Valence, France)
Profile
In 1273, at the age of thirteen, Beatice joined the Carthusians at the Charterhouse of Parménie, France. In 1301, she and two others, Luisa Alleman of Grésivaudan and Margherita di Sassenaye, were sent to found the monastery of Eymeu in the diocese of Valance, France. Noted for her devotion to the Passion of Christ, offering herself to suffer for others and as penance for the world. Said to have driven a nail through her left hand to help realize the sufferings of the Crucifixion.
Born
- 25 November 1303 at the monastery of Eymeu, Valence (in modern France) of natural causes
- re-interred in Parménie, France
- re-interred in the Olivetan sanctury there in 1901
- relics enshrined in the church of Rancurel
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Beatrice d’Ornacieux“. CatholicSaints.Info. 2 May 2020. Web. 23 January 2021. <>