Clementine Lynch, OSB (in religion, Mary Scholastica; 16 June 1754– 22 June 1799), was an Irish Catholic nun who served as abbess of the Benedictine convent in Ypres, Belgium, during the French Revolution.
Lynch was born 16 June 1754 in Ireland and was sent to the Benedictine school in Ypres, then part of the Austrian Netherlands, 9 July 1764.
Lynch became the fifth Abbess on 17 October 1783 when she was elected to the position.
The general, believed to be James O'Moran, then suggested the nuns leave convent life but they remained and withstood the town's sieges, despite being particularly close to the town's ramparts, and the province's annexation by France in October 1794.
The new government was hostile to the religious nature of the society and between that and the previous experiences, Lynch's health failed.