Flora of Beaulieu
Fleur of Issendolus (died 1347), also known as Fleur of Beaulieu, Sainte Fleur, Saint Flora or Flora of Beaulieu, was a French Hospitaller nun at Hôpital-Beaulieu in Issendolus, in the former province of Quercy. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and her feast is observed on 5 October.
Fleur is one of the few medieval female saints associated with the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Her medieval hagiographic dossier presents her as a visionary and Eucharistic mystic with a Passion-centered spirituality. More than a hundred miracles were attributed to her. Her local cult is attested by the late fourteenth century, although formal recognition by the Catholic Church came only in the nineteenth century.
In the Martyrology
- October 5 Saint Fleur, Hospitaller virgin