Bazol z Limoges

Who they were

Basolus (Basle) was born at Limoges in the middle of the sixth century and served for a time as a soldier before becoming a monk. On pilgrimage to St Remigius at Rheims he was sent to the monastery of Verzy, and was later allowed to live alone in a cell near the top of a nearby hill, where he stayed for the rest of his life.

Many miracles were told of him, among them a hunted boar that took refuge under his habit while the hounds refused to come near; the count of Champagne then gave him a large estate. St Sindulf was one of his disciples. He died about 620.

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 soldier turned hermit near Rheims, named in the Roman Martyrology.