Opportuna of Montreuil

Saint Opportuna of Montreuil
Opportuna being visited by the Virgin on her deathbed, engraving by Jacques Callot (c. 1630)
Abbess and Virgin
Bornunknown
at the castle of Exmes, Argentan, near Ayesmes, Normandy, France
Died22 April 770
Montreuil, France
Venerated inEastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Feast22 April
AttributesCarrying an abbess's crozier and a casket of relics; with the Virgin appearing at her deathbed; as a princess with a basket of cherries and the fleur-de-lys
PatronageDiocese of Séez

Opportuna of Montreuil (died 770) was a Frankish Benedictine nun and abbess. A Vita et miracula Sanctae Opportunae was written within a century of her death (c. 885–88) by Adalhelm (later rendered Adelin), bishop of Séez, who believed he owed his life and his see to Opportuna.[1]

  1. ^ Julia M. H. Smith, "The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920" Past and Present No. 146 (February 1995), pp. 3-37.