Manveus Of Bayeux

Manvieu or Manveus' or sometimes Manve, Mange, Manvien, Mar-Wig, (died 480) was the sixth

bishop of Bayeux The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bayeux and Lisieux (Latin: ''Dioecesis Baiocensis et Lexoviensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux'') is a diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is coextensive with the Department of Calvados and is ...

. Manvieu was born in

Bayeux Bayeux () is a Communes of France, commune in the Calvados (department), Calvados Departments of France, department in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy in northwestern France. Bayeux is the home of the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts ...

, at number 13 rue Franche, in a wealthy

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family. His parents would have sent him to England, in the Kingdom of Kent, to learn human sciences. On his return to the Bessin, he would have tried to convert the inhabitants to Christianity but, faced with the lack of success of his business, would have retired with three companions to live in solitude and the practice of mortification and penance. Responding to a divine call, he would have left his exile to return to Bayeux. While a funeral convoy was passing in front of his father's house, he would have revived the deceased, thus gaining the esteem of the population. He would have then proceeded to miraculous cures of patients. Became a bishop around 470, he would have humbly performed his duties, doing penance and fasting for forty days in a row, which would have made this bishop say that he had been good at first, better in the middle and very good at end. He died on 28 May 480 and was buried in the Saint-Exupère church in Bayeux, at the foot of the southern wall, between the altar and the tower Statistique monumentale de l'arrondissement de Bayeux, Arcisse de Caumont, A. Hardel, 1858
(the current Saint-Exupère church is posterior to these observations). Saint Manvieu Bayeux is celebrated on 28 May. Two communes of Calvados,

Saint-Manvieu-Norrey Saint-Manvieu-Norrey () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. History The town was liberated on 26 June 1944 as part of Operation Epsom by Scottish troops from the Lowland Infantry Brigade's 44 ...

and

Saint-Manvieu-Bocage Saint-Manvieu-Bocage () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Noues de Sienne.Bishops of Bayeux 5th-century Gallo-Roman people 5th-century Christian clergy 480 deaths