Medardus
Sign in to saveMedardus or Medard (French: Médard or Méard) (ca. 456–545) was the Bishop of Noyon. He moved the seat of the diocese from Vermand to Noviomagus Veromanduorum (modern Noyon) in northern France. Medardus was one of the most honored bishops of his time, often depicted laughing, with his mouth wide open, and therefore he was invoked against toothache.
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- 0475-00-00
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- 0550-00-00
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- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Medardus
- Saint.birth_date
- 456
- Saint.death_date
- June 8, 545
- Saint.feast_day
- June 8
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- Statue of Saint Medardus, Saint Médard d'Eyrans
- Saint.birth_place
- Salency, Oise, Picardy, France
- Saint.death_place
- Noyon, Oise, Picardy, France
- Saint.titles
- Bishop and Confessor
- Saint.canonized_by
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- Born
- 475
- Died
- 550
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Medardus or Medard (French: Médard or Méard) (ca. 456–545) was the Bishop of Noyon. He moved the seat of the diocese from Vermand to Noviomagus Veromanduorum (modern Noyon) in northern France. Medardus was one of the most honored bishops of his time, often depicted laughing, with his mouth wide open, and therefore he was invoked against toothache.
==Life== Medardus was born around 456 at Salency, Oise, in Picardy. His father, Nectaridus, was a noble of Frankish origin, while his mother Protagia was Gallo-Roman. The Roman Martyrology includes the fanciful tale that Gildard, Bishop of Rouen, was his brother, '"born on the same day, consecrated bishops on the same day, and on the same day withdrawn from this life." However, there is no mention of Gildard in the earliest lives of Medardus, and Gildard attended the First Council of Orléans in 511, while Medardus was not consecrated until 530.