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Abel of Reims

8th-century Scottish Benedictine monk and archbishop, Catholic saint, companion of Boniface deposed as Archbishop of Reims

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Feast: 5 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born

700

Died

764

Beatified

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not needed: before formal processes

Canonised

By tradition

recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Abel (fl. 744–747) served as the Bishop of Reims in Francia, now modern-day France. He has sometimes been venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, particularly by the Bollandists.

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The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Sources

Wikidata Q318504 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
English Wikipedia — Abel of Reims (CC BY-SA)

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