Blessed Beatrice d’Ornacieux

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)

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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

c.1260 in Ornacieu, Dauphine (in the southeastern area of modern France

Died

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