Mummolenus

Who they were

St. Mummolen, bishop of Noyon and Tournai in France, was born at Constance and in his youth entered the abbey of Luxeuil, where he was ordained priest. With permission of the abbot, Mummolen and two companions offered their services to bishop Audomar of Terouanne and, after assisting him in the evangelization of the country for nine years, in 648 took up their abode in the abbey of Sithiu, which the bishop had built for them. Mummolen, who was made abbot, excelled all the rest in his mortifications, and is said to have taken no other nourishment than bread and water. After the death of St. Acharius in 659 he was chosen bishop of Noyon and Tournai, which he governed faithfully to the end of his mortal career in 685.

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 16 October.