Rigobert

Saint Rigobert (died 743) was a Benedictine monk and later abbot at who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as bishop of Reims in 698. Rigobert baptized Charles Martel, but Charles afterwards had him brutally driven from the see and replaced, for political reasons, by the warlike and unpriestly Milo, who was already Archbishop of Trier. 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. His feast day is 4 January.

Rigobert

Saint Rigobert (died 743) was a Benedictine monk and later abbot at who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as bishop of Reims in 698. Rigobert baptized Charles Martel, but Charles afterwards had him brutally driven from the see and replaced, for political reasons, by the warlike and unpriestly Milo, who was already Archbishop of Trier. 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. His feast day is 4 January.