A Dictionary of Saintly Women/Adozina

by Agnes B. C. Dunbar

St. Adozina, Aug. 5, V. O.S.B. 10th century. Daughter of the count of Agueda, in Portugal. She imitated the heroic virtues of her brother, St. Rozendo, and followed him to the monastery of Cella Nova, in Galicia, where they took the habit of the Brothers of the Order of St. Benedict, and kept their rule. She died in the convent of Oporto. Azevedo, Pantheon.