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Saint Remigius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Saint Remigius, Apostle of the Franks, bishop of Reims, (ca 437– January 13, 533) effected the conversion to Christianity of Clovis, King of the Franks, at Christmas, 496, one of the turning points in the success of Trinitarian Christianity and a climacteric moment in European history. |
 | | Remigius was born, traditionally at Cerny, near Laon, into the highest levels of Gallo-Roman society, said to have been son of Emilius, count of Laon (who is not otherwise attested) and of Celina, daughter of the bishop of Soissons, which Clovis had conquered in 486. |
 | | Remigius' brother Principius was bishop of Soissons and also corresponded with Sidonius Apollinaris (Book IX.viii), whose letters give a sense of the highly cultivated courtly literary Gallo-Roman style all three men shared. |
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