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Gerbold
French bishop
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 7 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
690
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Saint Gerbold (French: saint Gerbaud or saint Gerbold) (died c. 690 AD) was a French bishop venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was a monk who founded the abbey of Livry in Normandy and later became bishop of Bayeux.
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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.
Sources
- Nominis (French bishops' conference) — Saint Gerbold — Benedictine monk, founder of Livry abbey, eleventh bishop of Bayeux, d. c. 690, local feast 7 December — matches Wikidata exactly.
- Wikidata Q16198922 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Gerbold (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.