Litany of Saints
Picture: Alphonse Hénaff · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Melor

Breton saint

SaintPre-congregation

Feast: 1 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
524
Died
544
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Melor (also known in Latin as Melorius; in Cornish as Melor and in Cornu-English as Mylor; in French as Méloir; and other variations) was a 10th-century Breton saint who, in England, was venerated in Cornwall and at Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, which claimed some of his relics.

Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.

The miracles

Limited information available on this saint.

Why that counted as sanctity

Limited information available on this saint.

Connected on this site

Sources
  • Wikidata Q3463997 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
  • English Wikipedia — Melor (CC BY-SA)

Not yet written up in full: no Church source with an account of this person has been found yet. The name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.

All saints · About this site · Report a mistake on this page