[5] Upon her marriage to Gislulf at the age of 12,[6] she offered her husband all of her possessions to "gain the freedom of her body".

Her husband granted her desire for a Josephite marriage and encouraged her piety and charity.

After being consecrated by the city's bishop as a deaconess, she was eventually able to persuade her father to build her a convent on his own land.

[6] Her church in Metz was situated near that of Saint Ferreolus of Besançon.

Upon her death, when the nuns removed her garments to wash her body, they reported that "a wonderful odour suddenly became sprinkled around that same place".