Rigobert (died c. 750) was a

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monk and later abbot of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as

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in 698. He is venerated as a

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in the

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Biography

Rigobert baptized

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, but Charles afterwards had him brutally driven from the see and replaced, for political reasons, by the warlike and unpriestly

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, who was already Archbishop of Trier. Rigobert took refuge in Aquitaine and then retired to Gernicourt, in the Diocese of

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, where he led a life in the exercises of penance and prayer. He died about the year 750, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter at Gernicourt, which he had built.

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translated his relics to the abbey of Saint Theodoric, and later, to the church of Saint Dionysius at Reims. Fulk, Hincmar's successor, removed them into the metropolitan Church of Our Lady of Reims, in which the greater part is preserved in a rich shrine, though a portion is kept in the church of Saint Dionysius at Reims, and another portion in the cathedral of Paris, where a chapel bears his name. His

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is 4 January.Saint Rigobert of Rheims
Catholic Daily Readings; accessed 2022-12-08

References

External links

Rigobert at ''Patron Saints Index''

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