Savinian and Potentian
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Saints Savinian and Potentian are martyrs commemorated as the patron saints and founders of the diocese of Sens, France. Savinian should not be confused with another early French martyr, Sabinian of T
The Martyrdom of Saint Savinian. Church of Saint-Étienne de Sens.
Gregory of Tours
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Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".
St. Gregory of Tours, 19th century statue by Jean Marcellin, in the Louvre in Paris, France
Realms of Merovingian Gaul at the death of Clovis (511 AD)
Frontispiece of Historia Francorum
St Gregory and King Chilperic I, from the Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V, 14th-century illumination