Saint Érembert (610-670), son of a Merovingian nobleman, was
Bishop of Toulouse
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. Érembert was born in the valley of Feuillancourt, near current town of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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, where there is a priory dedicated to
Saint Saturnin, the first Bishop of Toulouse.
He became a monk at the
Abbey of Fontenelle where he received the habit of St. Benedict from
Saint Wandrille. He was a disciple of
Saint Lambertus, then abbot and later Bishop of Lyon. In 656,
Chlothar III
Chlothar III (also spelled ''Chlotar'', ''Clothar'', ''Clotaire'', ''Chlotochar'', or ''Hlothar''; 652–673) was King of the Franks, ruling in
Neustria and Burgundy from 657 to his death. He also briefly ruled Austrasia.
He was the eldest son of ...
appointed him bishop of Toulouse, a position he held for ten years before returning to his original monastery.
According to his
hagiography
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, Érembert’s miracle was the extinguishing of a raging fire, trapping a crowd in the basilica, by just his staff.
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7th-century Christian saints
Bishops of Toulouse