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Calétric de Chartres
French bishop and saint
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 4 September (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
573
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Chartres in Neustria, now in France, Saint Calétric, bishop.
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 4 September as a bishop of Chartres.
Connected on this site
- Venantius Fortunatus Saint“His name is also spelled as Caletricus, Chaletricus or Chalactericus (in Venantius Fortunatus) whilst in French, it appears in the popular forms of Caltry or Calais, probably caused by the confusion with the abbot-saint of Le Maine.” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 4 September (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q2934608 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Calétric of Chartres (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.