Sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of
France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her
life of
virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the
Humility of the Blessed Virgin
Mary at Longchamps in Paris. She lived there in austerity but never became a nun and refused to become abbess. She died there on February 23, and her cult was approved in 1521.
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