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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Gallus II of Clermont

Saint of Clermont, venerated in the Western Church.

Feast
November 1old style November 14
Era
7th century
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Gallus II of Clermont was bishop of Clermont in Auvergne in the 7th century. He is venerated in the Western Church, and one French source states that the Orthodox Churches also commemorate him on 1 November.

Letters of his to Saint Desiderius (Didier), bishop of Cahors between 630 and 655, survive; for a long time they were attributed to Saint Gall of Switzerland. The chronicler Flodoard, in his history of the Church of Reims, records that Gallus had a dispute with Angelbert, archbishop of Reims, over properties in Auvergne, probably in the Brivadois, around the years 641 to 646.

No sure details remain about his birth, his other deeds or his repose. He is commemorated on 1 November.

Commemorated the same day November 1