A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Baudonivia
BAUDONIVIA, a Nun at Poictiers, at the End of the 6th and beginning of the 7th Century,
Was educated in the monastery of St. Croix, at Poictiers, founded by Radegonda. This princess wished the nuns belonging to it, to be equally respectable for piety and knowledge; and Baudonivia, entering into the views of the foundress, attached herself to the sciences. On the death of Radegonda in 587, she was intreated to write her life, which had been already done by a bishop. Baudonivia confined herself merely to notice what he had omitted. Her work remains in the first volume of the Acts of the Saints of St. Benoit.
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