Eugenia of Alsace

Saint Eugenia of Alsace
Mosaic representing Eugenia in the Chapel of Tears of the Convent of Mont Sainte-Odile.
Abbess of Hohenburg, Venerable
ResidenceHohenburg Abbey
Died16 September 735
Honored inEastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Feast16 September

Eugenia of Alsace (French: Eugénie d'Alsace, died 16 September 735), was the second abbess of the Hohenburg Abbey, in Alsace from 721 to 735 who is venerated as a Christian saint. She was a niece of Saint Odile and sister of Saint Attalus. Saint Eugenia's feast day is celebrated on 16 September, which was the day she died of natural causes in 735 in Hohenburg.

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