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Melaine
Medieval bishop
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 6 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
401
Died
501
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Rennes in Brittany in France, Saint Melaine, bishop, who passed to the Lord at the place called Plaz along the river Vilaine, where he had built a church with his own hands and gathered monks to serve God.
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 6 November as a bishop of Rennes who built a church with his own hands and gathered monks to serve God.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 6 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3086457 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Melaine (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.