The Saint Challenge Day 362 - St. Emilina of Boulancourt - October 27

Born in France around 1115, the story of Emilina d’Yèvres begins when she decided it was God’s will for her to remain a celibate laywoman and was drawn to the Cistercian Abbey of Boulancourt. She couldn’t become a monk, but with their approval, she took up residence in a barn that the abbey owned a few miles away. Emilina followed the Cistercian rule as…