ABBESS

Beatification date:1703 by Pope Clement XI (cultus confirmed)

PROFILE

Born on 1092 in Dijon, France.

Younger sister of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Married to Guy de Narcy, a member of the ruling family of Lorraine (in modern France). After a few years of rich and frivolous living, Humbeline turned her back on the worldly life; after a few more years she, with her husband’s approval, became a Benedictine nun at Jully-les-Nonnains convent near Troyes, France. Served as abbess there.

She died the 21 August 1136 at the Jully-les-Nonnains convent in France of natural causes. Several family members, include Saint Bernard were with her, buried in Jully-les-Nonnains.