Venerable
Gummarus of Lier
An official at the Frankish court who ended his life as a hermit at Lier, reposed around 774.
- Feast
- October 11old style October 24
- Reposed
- 7748th century
- Place
- Lier
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Saint Gummarus of Lier (Gomer) was an official at the court of the Franks who ended his life as a hermit. He was born around 717 and reposed in 774, after long and patient endurance of the wrongs of the world. The town of Lier (Lierre) in Belgium grew up around his hermitage. He is commemorated on 11 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.
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