Patrick of Bayeux

Saint Patrick of Bayeux (Patricius, Patrice) is counted bishop of Bayeux in Gaul in the fifth century; he reposed around 469. The Orthodox calendar calls him the fourth bishop of the city, Wikipedia the sixth. He is commemorated on 24 May.

He was born at Bayeux, in the suburb that now bears the name Saint-⁠Patrice, into a rich and Christian family, and received a religious education. After his parents' death he gave all he had to the clergy and the poor and turned his birth house into a church, on the site of the present church of Saint-⁠Patrice. It is thought that the repeated English invasions of Normandy and Bayeux led to his cult being replaced by that of his contemporary, Patrick of Ireland. His life remains uncertain and incomplete; he is said to have been an abbot at Évrecy, and it is not even certain that he was really bishop of Bayeux, although he is shown beside the first bishops of the city.