Baino di Thérouanne
Feast: 20 June (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Bain (Bagnus) is the chief patron of Calais. He was a monk of Fontenelle and a keen disciple of St Wandrille, and about 689 became bishop of Thérouanne, a diocese covering what is now the Pas-de-Calais, where he preached with particular success near Calais.
He brought back from Rome, from Pope St Sergius I, what were believed to be relics of St Silas, and he buried two murdered Irish pilgrims, SS. Luglius and Luglian. After twelve years he resigned and returned to Fontenelle as a monk, but was later made abbot there. He probably died in 710.
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
A bishop of Thérouanne and abbot of Fontenelle, patron of Calais.
Connected on this site
- Sergius I Saint“He brought back from Rome, from Pope St Sergius I, what were believed to be relics of St Silas, and he buried two murdered Irish pilgrims, SS.” — this site's research
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 20 June
- Wikidata Q17279834 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.