Saint Calais

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For the commune, see 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

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

External links

Le Mans at the Catholic Encyclopedia
1 March

Persondata
Name	Calais
Alternative names
Short description	French hermit
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	541
Place of death

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