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St. Maxentia of Beauvais

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Feastday: November 20
Death: unknown

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Irish or Scottish virgin and martyr. She fled to France to escape marriage to a pagan chieftain and lived as a hermitess on the banks of the Qise River near Senlis. The chieftain she had spumed hunted her down and beheaded her at Pont-Sainte-Maxence when she refused to return with him to Ireland.

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