Rigobert

 ( Year Of Birth Missing ) 

Rigobert (died c. 750) was a Benedictine monk and later abbot of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as bishop of Reims in 698. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

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Biography Rigobert baptized Charles Martel, but Charles afterwards had him brutally driven from the see Goyau, Georges. "Reims." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 12. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 24 October 2017 and replaced, for political reasons, by the warlike and unpriestly Milo, who was already Archbishop of Trier. Kurth, Godefroid. "Charles Martel." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 24 October 2017 Rigobert took refuge in Aquitaine and then retired to Gernicourt, in the Diocese of Soissons, where he led a life in the exercises of penance and prayer. Monks of Ramsgate. “Rigobert”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 25 December 2016

He died about the year 750, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter at Gernicourt, which he had built. Hincmar 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 Reims Cathedral, 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. Butler, Alban. “Saint Rigobert, or Robert, Bishop”. Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 January 2013

His feast day is 4 January. Saint Rigobert of Rheims; Catholic Daily Readings; accessed 2022-12-08

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External links

• Rigobert at Patron Saints Index

• St. Rigobert's dinner
• The Golden Legend — The Life of Saint Rigobert

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