Landry of Sées

Holy Hierarch Landry of Sées (Landericus) is counted as the third bishop of the city of Sées in Gaul and reposed on 4 March 480. He succeeded Sigibold, who in turn had followed Saint Latuin, the first bishop of the see.

He lived in great holiness and labored much for the advance of Christianity in his diocese, despite strong resistance. The legend says that pagans shut him in a barrel full of flax combs and rolled him down a mountain, but this is not established. He died at a great age in the arms of Saint Contest, bishop of Bayeux, who happened to be at Sées at the time.

He was buried in the cathedral of the Virgin; that building was destroyed in 878 in the Saxon invasion. His name appears in the Martyrology of Ainon, and from the 11th century his memory has been kept on 16 July, by the Western calendar (new style). His office was recited in the diocese until 1864. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.