Saint
Heraclius of Sens
Bishop of Sens
Bishop of Sens from 487 and friend of Saint Remigius; he took part in the baptism of King Clovis at Reims.
Life
Saint Heraclius was the fourteenth Bishop of Sens, in France, from the year 487 until about 515 or 520. He is commemorated on 8 June and on 9 July.
In his time, around 515, the abbey of Saint-Jean-lès-Sens was founded at Sens. He was a friend of Saint Remigius and took part, in the cathedral of Reims, in the baptism of the Frankish king Clovis I.
His relics were first buried in a place the source does not name, and then moved to the cathedral of Saint Stephen.
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