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| | Saint Helier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Saint Helier is named for Helier (or Helerius), a 6th century ascetic hermit, pupil of Saint Cunibert from Tongres (now in Belgium). |
 | | Though Cunibert raised him in the church, Helier journeyed to Normandy and at Nanteuil in the Cotentin, a holy man called Marculf baptized him and sent him to an island called Gersut, or Agna (Jersey), which was all but depopulated due to repeated attacks by Vikings. |
 | | Though on his rock Helier starved himself to ascetic weakness, he had the strength, when he was beheaded by further pagans (Vandals in the hagiography), to pick up his head and wade to shore (compare Saint Denis). |
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