SAINT INKATRUDIS ABBESS OF BUGGA (430-610)

Daughter of Geneseric the Barbarian, Inkatrudis was a Visigothic warrior woman who, during the sack of Rome in 455, killed five bishops and affixed their heads to her belt. She was converted by St. Benedict and took the veil. After teaching fifth grade for eighty years, she was elected abbess of the famous abbey of Bugga in Bulgaria. On her deathbed, she requested that all her nuns be given grog at her funeral. She died when she was one hundred and eighty, but this is not uncommon for nuns, even today. After her death, she appeared in a vision to manuscript illuminators in her abbey and told them that in heaven the angels do not read the Roman Martyrology at Second Nocturnes. For this reason, she is patron of cartoonists, liturgists and writers. In some places known as St. Inky, her feast day is July 13.