ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 6th of August
GODERANNUS, BISHOP OF SAINTES
Goderannus [Goderanus] (August 6, August 11, March 28) abbot and bishop of Saintes (Santones), a student of Hugh of Clugny [Cluny], was born and educated at Reims and entered the monastery at Clugny in 1050.
A heroic deed of his, worthy of eternal memory, has come down to us: his abbot administered the holy Host to a dying leper. The patient, however, was so ill that he vomited It up quite immediately afterwards. Goderannus picked up the Host and consumed It himself. St Hugh commented later that perhaps it would have been easier to endure the torture Saint Laurence had to suffer than do what Goderannus did on this occasion.
In 1070 he was elevated to the episcopal see of Saintes; but after just four years of apostolic work, the Lord called Goderannus to his eternal reward. Bucelin* lists him among the "blessed"; a more recent Benedictine calendar mentions him as "Saint Goderannus". Lechner*, who gave us the information above, calls him "Venerable Goderannus."
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 459)
*A hagiography source used by the authors
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org
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