Saint Memmius (french: Menge, Meinge, Memmie) is venerated as the first
bishop of
Châlons-sur-Marne (now ''Châlons-en-Champagne''), and founder of the
diocese.
According to tradition, Memmius was a
Roman citizen who was consecrated by
Saint Peter and sent to
Gaul to convert the people there to
Christianity.
However, according to
Flodoard
Flodoard of Reims (; 893/4 – 28 March 966) was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are m ...
, he was a contemporary of
Saint Sixtus,
bishop of Reims
The Archdiocese of Reims (traditionally spelt "Rheims" in English) ( la, Archidiœcesis Remensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese ...
.
[Alban Butler, ''The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' (J. Duffy, 1866), 103.] Memmius' sister,
Saint Poma, is also venerated as a saint.
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Veneration
Saint Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours (30 November 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florenti ...
writes that while traveling through Châlons, his servant fell sick from fever. Gregory prayed at Memmius' tomb and by the next morning Gregory's servant had been cured.[ Memmius' immediate successors, Donatian and Domitian, were also venerated as saints.][
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References
Bishops of Châlons-sur-Marne
3rd-century bishops in Gaul
300 deaths
Gallo-Roman saints
Year of birth unknown
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