Key facts
- Born
- c. 437 , Cerny-en-Laonnois , Picardy , Roman Empire
- Died
- 13 January 533 (533-01-13) (aged 95–96), Rheims , Champagne , Kingdom of the Franks
- Venerated in
- Catholic Church , Anglican Communion , Eastern Orthodoxy
- Feast
- 13 January , 1 October (translation of relics)
- Attributes
- dove , book, lamp
- Patronage
- France
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Cerny-en-Laonnois
- Place of death
- Reims
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Image
- Statue de Saint Remi Basilique Reims 130208.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Saint Remigius
- name in native language
- Remi de Reims
- place of burial
- Basilica of Saint-Remi
- date of death
- 0533-01-13
- canonization status
- Catholic saint
- date of birth
- 0437-00-00
- feast day
- January 15
- writing language
- Latin
- subject has role
- bishop
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Encyclopedic overview
Statue of Saint Remigius at the Saint Remigius Church, Simpelveld, Netherlands Remigius (French: Remy or Rémi; c. 437 – 13 January 533) was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important event in the Christianization of the Franks. Because of Clovis's efforts, a large number of churches were established in the formerly pagan lands of the Frankish empire, establishing a Nicene Christianity for the first time in Germanic lands, most of whom had been converted to Arian Christianity.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saint Remigius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.