Saint
Genebald of Laon
Bishop of Laon
The first Bishop of Laon in Gaul, reposed around 555.
- Feast
- September 5old style September 18
- Reposed
- 5556th century
- Place
- Laon
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Genebald of Laon was the first bishop of Laon in Gaul and a relative of Saint Remigius. He did seven years of penance for a sin he had committed. He reposed around the year 555. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 5 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 18 September of the civil calendar.
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