Gerald of Mâcon

Saint Gerald of Mâcon (Gérard of Brou) was bishop of Mâcon in Burgundy, France, and ended his life as a hermit. Our calendar has him reposing in 927; French sources give 927 or 958. He is commemorated on 29 May.

He was a monk at Brou and, after some forty years as bishop, returned to his monastery, where he reposed. French sources hold him to be a native of Belgium or Flanders and say he took part in the founding of Cluny Abbey with Bernon, its first abbot. In 927 he withdrew to his estate at Brou, now in Bourg-⁠en-⁠Bresse, to build a monastery and a church. His body was later moved to the church of Saint-⁠Pierre in Mâcon.