ST RIGOBERT, BISHOP OF REIMS - 4 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 4th of January

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SAINT RIGOBERT, BISHOP OF REIMS

Saint Rigobert (Robert), abbot of Orbais, afterward bishop of Rheims [Reims], was favoured with the gift of miracles, and suffered an unjust banishment under Charles Martel. 

PENANCE AND PRAYER

He was recalled by Pepin, but finding Milo in possession of his see, retired to Gernicour, a village four or five leagues from Rheims, where he led a retired life in the exercises of penance and prayer. 

He died about the year 750, and was buried in the church of St Peter at Gernicour, which he had built. 

THE TRANSLATION OF HIS RELICS

Hinomar, the fifth bishop from him, translated his relics to the abbey of St Theodoric, and nine years after, to the church of St Dionysius at Rheims. Fulco, Hincmar’s successor, removed them into the metropolitan church of our Lady, in which the greater part is preserved in a rich shrine; but a portion is kept in the church of St Dionysius there, and another portion in the cathedral of Paris, where a chapel bears his name. 

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Rigobert may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.