Patroclus of Bourges

Saint Patroclus of Bourges (c. 496–576) was a Merovingian ascetic, who was a native of the province of Berry (province), Berry, France. In his ''Historia Francorum'', Gregory of Tours writes that Patroclus became a deacon at Bourges in his youth.Jones, Allen E., ''Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul'', Cambridge University Press, 2009
p. 325 He would drink nothing stronger than water that had been sweetened with honey. He ate only bread, water, and salt, and devoted long periods to prayer, being credited with healing powers. He died aged eighty years old.

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6th-century Christian clergy
6th-century Frankish saints
496 births
576 deaths