Landericus of Paris

Saint Landericus of Paris (Landry) was bishop of Paris from 650 and reposed around 661, a protector of the sick and the poor. He is venerated by both the Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church and is commemorated on 10 June.

He was chief clerk of the royal chancery and succeeded Audobertus as bishop of Paris. During the famine of 650 to 651 he sold all his personal possessions, and then some of the furniture and sacred vessels of the church, to feed the poor. He is credited with building the first major hospital of the city, dedicated to Saint Christopher, now the Hôtel-⁠Dieu. In 653, with twenty-⁠three other bishops, he subscribed the charter by which Clovis II exempted the abbey of Saint-⁠Denis from episcopal jurisdiction. It is believed that he built the original church of Saint-⁠Germain l'Auxerrois, which became the parish church of the kings of France.

He was buried in Saint-⁠Germain l'Auxerrois, where a chapel bears his name and most of his relics are kept; two bones were given in 1408 to the parish of Saint-⁠Landry, originally a chapel near his house in which he used to pray.