Rigobert (died c. 743) was a
Benedictine
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monk and later abbot of the
Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais who subsequently succeeded
Saint Rieul as
bishop of Reims
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in 698. He is venerated as a
saint
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in the
Catholic Church
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Rigobert baptized
Charles Martel
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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
Soissons
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, where he led a life in the exercises of penance and prayer.
He died about the year 743, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter at Gernicourt, which he had built.
Hincmar
Hincmar (; ; la, Hincmarus; 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald. He belonged to a noble family of northern Francia.
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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
feast day
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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''
at St. Patrick's Church-->
''St. Rigobert's dinner''
''The Golden Legend — The Life of Saint Rigobert''
Year of birth missing
745 deaths
7th-century Frankish bishops
Bishops of Reims
8th-century Frankish bishops
8th-century Frankish saints
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