Venerable
Adalgis
An Irish monk and disciple of Saint Fursey, missionary in Picardy, reposed around 686.
- Feast
- June 2old style June 15
- Reposed
- 6867th century
- Place
- Saint Fursey
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Adalgis was an Irish monk and a disciple of Saint Fursey. He preached the Gospel around Arras and Laon in northern France.
In the forest of Thiérache, in Picardy, he founded a small monastery, around which grew the village called Saint-Algis. He reposed in the Lord around the year 686.
The Church commemorates him on 2 June, among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church). The date is that of the New Calendar.
Commemorated the same day June 2
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