Disciole

Who they were

Disciola was a 6th-century nun, daughter of an illustrious Gallo-Roman family and niece of the bishop of Albi. She entered the abbey later called Holy Cross at Poitiers, founded by Saint Radegund, while Saint Agnes was its first abbess, and was formed in the monastic rule by Agnes, becoming known for her humility, modesty and faithful observance.

She died in 583, shortly before Radegund and Agnes, making her the first saint of the abbey, and was buried in the crypt of the church that later became the basilica of Sainte-Radegonde, where a choir window depicts her. Her feast is kept on 13 May in the diocese of Poitiers, together with Saint Agnes.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

6th-century nun of the Holy Cross abbey at Poitiers, formed by Saint Agnes, remembered as the first saint of the abbey; feast 13 May with Saint Agnes.