Saint Calais

Saint Calais
Died 541
Honored in Roman Catholic Church
Feast 1 July

Calais (Calevisus) was a French hermit and founder of the monastery of Aniole. The town of Saint-Calais takes its name from him. According to the Vita Carileffi, Childebert I granted him lands, after an encounter in a forest where the king was hunting.[1]

Laumer was his successor and Siviard, another successor, wrote the life of St. Calais.

Notes

  1. ^ John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, The Long-haired Kings (1982), pp. 207-8.

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