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Saint Remigius

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views. Although Remigius's influence over people and prelates was extraordinary, upon one occasion his condoning of the offences of one Claudius, a priest whom Remigius had consecrated, brought upon him the rebukes of his episcopal brethren, who deemed Claudius deserving of degradation. The reply of
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upon his election (523) is apocryphal, and "the letter in which Pope Hormisdas appears to have appointed him vicar of the kingdom of Clovis is proved to be spurious; it is presumed to have been an attempt of Hincmar to base his pretensions for the elevation of Reims to the primacy, following the
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His tomb in Reims was deliberately desecrated on 7 October 1793 by a Commissioner of the Convention during the French Revolution due to the link between the tomb and royal patronage.
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in the battle of Tolbiac at around 497 AD, he requested Remigius to baptize him at Reims (December 25, 496) in the presence of a large company of Franks and Alamanni; according to
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princess who was wife to Clovis. Even before he embraced Christianity, Clovis had showered benefits upon Remigius and the Christians of Reims, and after his victory over the
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were elaborately admired by Sidonius Apollinaris, in a finely turned letter to Remigius, but are now lost. Four letters survive in the collection known as the
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Though Remigius never attended any of the church councils, in 517 he held a synod at Reims, at which after a heated discussion he converted a bishop of
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King Clovis granted Remigius stretches of territory, in which Remigius established and endowed many churches. He erected bishoprics at
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The legend of the ampulla of holy oil that was used to anoint the kings crowned at Reims originated after Remigius' time, with Bishop
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record that numerous donations were made to Remigius by the Frankish nobles, which he presented to the cathedral at Reims.
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society. He is said to have been son of Emilius, count of Laon (who is not otherwise attested) and of
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variety of Christianity for the first time in Germanic lands, most of whom had been converted to
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Seething Norfolk. Church of England round tower church dedicated to St Margaret and St Remigius
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A Commentary on the Pauline Epistles (edited Villalpandus, 1699) is not his work, but that of
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Philip Schaff, "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," entry by A. Hauck
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Philip Schaff, "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge," entry by A. Hauck
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The Life of St. Remigius, Bishop of Reims and Apostle of the Franks
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The story of the return of the sacred vessels (most notably the
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Chronicle of the French Revolution ISBN 0-582-05194-0
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His feast day in France is celebrated on 1 October.
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Index

Saint Remy
Saint-Rémy (disambiguation)
Saint

Clovis I
Master of Saint Gilles
National Gallery of Art
Cerny-en-Laonnois
Picardy
Roman Empire
Rheims
Champagne
Kingdom of the Franks
Roman Catholic Church
Anglican Communion
Eastern Orthodoxy
Feast
Attributes
dove
lamp
Patronage
France

Saint Remigius Church
French
Bishop of Reims
Franks
baptised
Clovis I
King of the Franks

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