01 October 2007

St. Remigius, Bishop, Confessor

St. Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, in France, converted the Merovingian king Clovis and the Frankish nation. He died in 534.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I always thought it was St Clotilda (the wife of Clovis) who converted him!

Unknown said...

I wouldn't be surprised if she had more to do with it than he, but perhaps St. Remigius actually baptised him, thus certainly playing an important role in Clovis's conversion.

Anonymous said...

Of the many Germanic tribes that overran the frontiers of the empire in the fourth and fifth centuries, the Franks were the only ones to be baptized into Christianity by an orthodox bishop rather than an adherent of Arianism. And strangely enough, the Franks were the ones who eventually achieved dominance in the area of the former western Roman Empire.