Saint Remigius
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Remigius was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important eve
Saint Remigius baptizes Clovis I, by the Master of Saint Gilles, c. 1500 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Statue of Saint Remigius at the Saint Remigius Church, Simpelveld, Netherlands
Reims Cathedral
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Notre-Dame de Reims, known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name, the seat of the Archdiocese of Reims. The cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin M
Saint Remigius
…A Commentary on the Pauline Epistles (edited Villalpandus, 1699) is not his work, but that of Remigius of Auxerre. Remigius' relics were kept in the Cathedral of Reims, whence Hincmar had them translated to Épernay during the Viking invasions and thence, in 1099 to the Abbey of Saint-Rémy. His tomb in Reims was…
Façade of the cathedral, looking northeast
The baptism of Clovis by a Gothic artist (14th c.)
An image of the Carolingian cathedral on the tomb of Archbishop Hincmar (9th century), destroyed in 1793