Blimond

Who they were

St. Blitmundus, abbot of St. Valery in Picardy, was in his infancy stricken with an ailment that paralyzed all his limbs. Having recovered his health at the intercession of St. Valery (Walaric), he resolved to live for God alone and entered the monastery over which the Saint presided as abbot. To this dignity Blitmundus was elevated after the saintly abbot’s death in 622 (see Dec. 12). The community being dispersed by wars, Blitmund betook himself to Bobbio in Italy to live under the direction of Abbot Attala (see March 10). When peace had been restored in his own country, he returned and reorganized his abbey, laboring incessantly in the interest of his brethren and of the faithful in the vicinity. His useful life was crowned by a holy death in 650.

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 Benedictine Martyrology (1922) remembers him on 3 January.