Abel of Reims
8th-century Scottish Benedictine monk and archbishop, Catholic saint, companion of Boniface deposed as Archbishop of Reims
Feast: 5 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
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 is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
- Santi e Beati — Sant'Abele di Reims — Listed as "Sant' Abele di Reims, Vescovo, † Abbazia di Lobbes, odierna Belgio, 5 agosto 764/770, festa 5 agosto" — matches feast 5 August.
- Wikidata Q318504 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Abel of Reims (CC BY-SA)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.