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2nd JULY:
ST MONEGONDES,
ANCHORESS

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1. St Monegondes was a native of Chartres, and honourably married. She had two daughters, who were the objects of her happiness and most ardent desires in this world. [Both of them died and she succumbed to a
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2. long spell of depression.]
Resolving to bid adieu to this transitory treacherous world, she, with her husband’s consent, built herself a cell at Chartres, in which she shut herself up, serving God in great austerity and assiduous prayer.

She had no other furniture than
3. a mat strewed on the floor on which she took her short repose, and she allowed herself no other sustenance than coarse oat bread with water which was brought her by a servant.

She afterwards removed to Tours, where she continued the same manner of life in a cell which she
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