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Gerbold

French bishop

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 7 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
unknown
Died
690
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Saint Gerbold (French: saint Gerbaud or saint Gerbold) (died c. 690 AD) was a French bishop venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was a monk who founded the abbey of Livry in Normandy and later became bishop of Bayeux.

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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 Q16198922 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Gerbold (CC BY-SA)

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