Flavitus

Saint Flavitus, also called Flaive, was a priest and hermit of the early Middle Ages in the region of Troyes in Gaul. He was born in the middle of the 6th century in Lombardy. In 568 he was brought as a prisoner of war to Champagne, where his master made him steward of his castle. Slandered and falsely accused by his master's wife, he cured them both of an illness, and his master freed him out of gratitude.

Being free, he was ordained priest by Saint Lupus at Sens and withdrew to solitude at Marcilly-⁠le-⁠Hayer, in the diocese of Troyes. He reposed on 18 December 630. In 1897 a chapel was built on the site of his hermitage near Marcilly-⁠le-⁠Hayer. His relics, kept in the church of Sainte-⁠Colombe at Sens, were destroyed in the 18th century; his cloak is kept as a contact relic in the cathedral of Sens. He is commemorated on 16 December, by the Western calendar (new style). He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.