Solemnis (French - Solène, Solen or Solenne;[1] died c. 533) was a Christian saint and bishop. He appears in the Acta Sanctorum (Volume VII, 57) for 25 September.[2]
He was made Bishop of Chartres in 483. He split off part of the bishopric of Chartres to create that of Châteaudun and made his brother Aventinus its first bishop.[3] Solène, Vedast (bishop of Arras) and Remigius (bishop of Reims) all contributed to Clovis I's conversion to Christianity.[4] Solène then assisted Remigius in Clovis's baptism in 499[5] and became the king's catechist. He died in Maillé (now known as Luynes, Indre-et-Loire département).
References
edit- ^ (in French) Histoire générale, civile et religieuse de la cité des Carnutes et du pays Chartrain, Michel-Jean-François Ozeray, Chartres 1836
- ^ (in French) Article - Nominis
- ^ (in French) Histoire de tous les Archevechez de l'univers, éd. Florentin et Pierre Delaulne, abbé de Commanville, Paris, 1700
- ^ (in French) Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain, et de la Beauce, Guillaume Doyen, éd. Deshayes, Chartres, 1786
- ^ Agreed date after world research studies in 1996 and inscribed on the St-Remi Basilica in Reims.
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