St. John of Syracuse
Feastday: October 23
Death: 609
Benedictine bishop of Syracuse, in Sicily, from 595 until his death.
St. John of Syracuse
Feastday: October 23
Death: 609
Benedictine bishop of Syracuse, in Sicily, from 595 until his death.
St. Elfleda
Feastday: October 23
Death: 936
Anglo-Saxon princess, Benedictine nun at Glastonbury, England. She lived as a recluse and was admired by St. Dunstan.
St. Clether
Feastday: October 23
Death: 520
Welsh saint also called Cleer, Clydog, Scledog, Citanus, or Cleodius. He was a descendant of a local king in Wales. Clether left Wales and went to Cornwall, England. Churches including St. Clear near Liskeard were built in his honor. He is reported to have been martyred. A second Clether is commemorated on November 3.
St. Benedict of Sebaste
Feastday: October 23
Death: 654
Bishop and hermit. Traditionally a bishop in the city of Sebaste, Turkey. During the persecutions of the era, he fled to Gaul. He built a hermitage near Poitiers, later transformed into the abbey St. Benedict of Quincay
St. Amo
Feastday: October 23
Death: 4th century
Bishop of Toul, France.The successor of St. Mansuetus.
St. Allucio
Feastday: October 23
Birth: 1070
Death: 1134
Allas giver, founder, and miracle worker. He was a shepherd in Pescia, Tuscany, in Italy, when he became the director of the almshouse in Valdi Nievole. Allucio also built shelters in mountain passes and at rivers. The group with which he worked became the Brothers of St. Allucio. A miracle worker known throughout the region, Allucio ended the war between the city states of Ravenna and Faenza.
St. Verecundus
Feastday: October 22
Death: 522
Bishop of Verona, Italy. The details of his labors are lost but the Goths ruled Verona at the time. St. Valens succeeded him.
St. Philip of Heraclea
Feastday: October 22
Death: 304
Bishop of Heraclea and martyr. During the persecution of the Church under Emperor Diocletian, Philip was arrested along with his deacon Severus and two other clergy, Hermes and Eusebius. Taken before the magistrate, Blassus, they were ordered to hand over the Sacred Scripture, but refused. Moved to Adrianople, they were burned at the stake. All four share the same feast day.
St. Philip
Feastday: October 22
Death: 270
Martyr. He was bishop of Fermo, Italy. He suffered martyrdom in the reign of Emperor Aurelian. Little is known of him save that his relics are preserved in the local cathedral of Fermo.
St. Nunctus
Feastday: October 22
Abbot and martyr, also called Noint. The abbot of a monastery near Merida, Spain, he was murdered by a group of robbers. He was venerated as a martyr.
St. Nepotian
Feastday: October 22
Bishop of Clermont, also listed as Neptiamus. He succeeded the famed St. Illidius in 386. Clermont was blessed with a vast roster of sainted bishops. Nepotian's successor was St. Artemius.
St. Moderan
Feastday: October 22
Death: 730
Benedictine bishop of Rennes, France, from 703-720. He made a pilgrimage to Rome and resigned his see to become a hermit in Berceto Abbey, in Parma, Italy. He is also called Moran and Moderammus.
St. Mellon
Feastday: October 22
Death: 314
First bishop of Rouen, France. A native of Cardiff, Wales, he is listed as Mallonous, Mellouns, and Melanius. He was converted while in Rome and sent to France as a missionary by Pope St. Stephen.
This article is about the 4th-century, possibly legendary, Bishop of Rouen. For the Bishop of Rennes, see Melaine.
Saint Mellonius (229-314) was an early 4th-century Bishop of Rotomagus (now Rouen) in the Roman province of Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis (now Normandy in France). He is known only from a 17th-century 'Life' of little historical value, meaning the historicity of his existence is uncertain.[3]
Contents
1 Legend
2 Veneration
3 Legacy
4 References
5 External links
Legend
Detail of a stained glass window in Saint Ouen's church, Rouen portraying Mellonius, 1325/1339
Mellonius (surnamed Probus)[1] is said to have been born near Cardiff in Wales, presumably at St Mellons, although the saint there is generally thought to be Saint Melaine, Bishop of Rennes. The two have, unfortunately, been hopelessly confused in many biographies. Mellonius' story tells how he travelled to Rome to pay the British tribute. He was there converted to Christianity by Pope Stephen I,[4] who ordained him priest and later consecrated him a bishop.
Shortly after the martyrdom of Pope Stephen in 257, Mellonius set out for Gaul. He succeeded Nicasius of Rouen as Bishop of Rouen in 261. After a long episcopate, in 311, he retired to a hermit‘s cell at a place called Hericourt, where he died A.D. 314.[5] Mellonius was succeeded by Avitianus.
He is sometimes confused with Mellonius, Bishop of Troyes, from 390 to 400.
Veneration
His feast day is 22 October. In the English translation of the 1956 edition of the Roman Martyrology, 'St Mellon' is listed under 22 October with the citation: At Rouen, St Mellon, Bishop, who was ordained by Pope St Stephen and sent thither to preach the Gospel.[6]
In the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, Mellonius is listed under the same date, 22 October, with the Latin name Mallóni. He is mentioned as follows: 'At Rothómagi (Rouen), bishop, who in that city announced the Christian faith and handed on the episcopate'.[7]
Bishop Mellonius is depicted in a fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours.[8]
Mellonius was buried at Rouen, but his remains were subsequently translated to a church in Pontoise towards the end of the eighth century to protect them from Norse warbands. They remained there until they were lost during the French Revolution.
Legacy
St. Mellon's Church in St. Mellons, Cardiff id dedicated to Mellonius of Rouen. A fair used to be held on his feast day in the village of St Mellons.[2] The church was previously dedicated to St. Lucius, but was changed upon the arrival of the Normans.[1] The church at Thiédeville is dedicated to him at Héricourt, where there was a holy well. There is also a church dedicated to St. Mellon in Plomelin, Brittany.