Saint Libaire the Great
Also known as
- Lievière
- 7 October (St Die, France)
- 8 October (Toul-Nancy, France)
- Pentecost Monday (procession in Grand, France commemorating the return of the relics)
- 1st Sunday in October (procession in Grand, France)
Profile
Born to an imperial Roman patrician family, the daughter of Baccius Lientrude and sister of Saint Amée, Saint Francule, Saint Gontrude, Saint Hoilde, Saint Lintrude, Saint Menne, Saint Ode, Saint Pusinne and Saint Suzanne. She worked for her family as a shepherdess, spending her time with the flocks spinning, praying and singing hymns. While travelling, emperor Julian the Apostate found her in the field and tried to get her to renounce Christianity by showing her a golden statue of Apollo; she struck it with her distaff and the statue fell apart. Martyr. Legend says that a healing spring sprang from the place of her murder, and that her body picked up the severed head and carried it back to town where she combed out the hair to make it more presentable before burial.
Born
- mid-4th century Roman imperial Gaul (in modern France)
- beheaded in 362 at the 2nd milepost of Apollogranum, Gaul (in modern France)
- relics sent to the canons of Saint-Léon, Toul, France in 1657 to protect them from Protestant raiders
- some relics (including a comb Libaire used to comb her hair after being beheaded) enshrined in Grand, Vosges, France on 5 February 1793
- relics re-enshrined in Grand in 1804
- relics re-enshrined in Grand in 1874
- some relics enshrined in Rambervillers, France
- some relics enshrined in Burey-en-Vaux, France
- some relics enshrined in Lépanges-sur-Vologne, France
- some relics enshrined in Affracourt, France
- some relics enshrined in Damelevières, France
- some relics enshrined in Sainte-Livière, Haute-Marne, France
- Sainte-Livière, Haute-Marne, France
MLA Citation
- “Saint Libaire the Great“. CatholicSaints.Info. 28 May 2018. Web. 4 July 2020. <>