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Remaclus
Benedictine missionary bishop
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Feast: 3 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
600
Died
673
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the monastery of Stavelot in Brabant, in present-day Belgium, Saint Remaclus, bishop and abbot, who, after that of Solesmes, founded the two monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy in the solitude of the Ardennes forest.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 3 September as a bishop and abbot who founded the monasteries of Stavelot and Malmedy in the Ardennes.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 3 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q762603 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Remaclus (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.