
† Saint of the Day † (October 1) ✠ St. Remigius ✠ Bishop and Confessor: Born: 437 AD Cerny-en-Laonnois, Picardy, France Died: January 13, 533 Rheims, Champagne, France Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodoxy Feast: October 1 Patronage: France Saint Remigius was Bishop of Reims and Apostle of the Franks. On 25 December 496, he baptized Clovis I, King of the Franks. This baptism, leading to the conversion of the entire Frankish people to Christianity, was a momentous success for the Church and a seminal event in European history. St. Remigius was born around the mid-fifth century close to the city of Laón, France, where a saintly hermit lived. This hermit, who was blind, was afflicted not over this suffering, but over the situation of the Catholic Religion in France, which had been devastated by the Vandal persecution. One night, while he was praying for the Church, he heard a celestial voice that said to him: “God has heard your prayers and de...