St. Clotilde
Clotilde, daughter of Burgundian Chilperic Carétène and Christian, born around 474, probably in Lyons, she was raised in the practice of virtue and veneration of the martyrs of Lyon, Saint Blandina especially. When, around 490, Chilperic died she had to tutor her uncle Godegisil, King Geneva. Sought in marriage by the Frankish king, Clovis, still pagan, who wanted to find allies against the Burgundians, the Visigoths, under this condition she agreed that children born of their union would be raised in the Catholic faith. The marriage was celebrated in Soissons with the pomp of barbaric customs: the great concern of Clotilde, from that moment, was the conversion of her husband. The work must be slow, it could seriously fear that if Clovis was a Christian, he immediately fell into Arianism. The auxiliary was sent by Providence Remi, bishop of Rheims, who had won the good graces of the barbarian king, congratulating him on his accession to the throne. The birth of her first child was for ...