ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 12th of May SAINT MODOALD, ARCHBISHOP OF TRIER Saint Modoald (Modoaldus), bishop of Trier [Treves], earned the honorary title of "father and protector of the miserable" from the citizens of the city owing to his charity and apostolic self-sacrifice. Relics of him are found in Trier at St Matthias outside the city, in Cologne at St Gereon and at St Jacob in Liège. Variants of his name are Modowaldus and Rodoaldus. However, the year of his death is not known. The Bollandists * place his episcopal activity between A.D. 622 and 640; so does the Gall. Christiana *. But according to the annals of Lobbach (Pertx, mon. hist. Germ. VI. script. IV. 11) St Modoald was still alive in the year 647, as this sentence proves : "Modoaldus, brother of Itta, Gertrude's mother, Archbishop of Trier, and his sister, the abbess Severa, shine through their sanctity." Some of his episcopal duties are also chronologically fixed...