Manvieu of Bayeux

Manvieu of Bayeux (also called Manveus, Manvé or Mar-⁠Wig) is counted the sixth bishop of Bayeux and is said to have died on 28 May 480. According to tradition he was born at Bayeux, in a well-⁠off Christian family, and his parents sent him to study in the kingdom of Kent in England. Back in the Bessin, he began to convert the inhabitants, but since success was small he withdrew with three companions to a solitary life of mortification and penance.

According to the hagiographic story, he then returned to Bayeux at a divine call. When a funeral procession was passing the house of his father, he is said to have raised the dead man, and so gained the esteem of the people. Tradition also credits him with several healings. He kept up the severity of his struggles, fasting, according to Jean Hermant, for forty days at a time. It is said of him that he was "good at the beginning, better in the middle and very good at the end". He was buried in the old church of Saint-⁠Exupère at Bayeux. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic and the Orthodox Church and commemorated on 28 May, in the Western calendar (new style). Two communes of Calvados, Saint-⁠Manvieu-⁠Norrey and Saint-⁠Manvieu-⁠Bocage, bear his name.