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| Clotilda, Saint |
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(kl t l´d ) (KEY) , d. 545, Frankish queen. She converted her husband, Clovis I, to Christianity and built with him in Paris the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, later renamed (10th cent.) Sainte-Geneviève. After her husbands death she spent her life caring for the poor. Feast: June 3. |
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