Rasyphus and Ravennus

Saints Rasyphus and Ravennus (Rasiphus) were, according to tradition, natives of Britain who fled their country during the Anglo-⁠Saxon invasions of the fifth century. They settled in northern Gaul, lived as hermits and were martyred at Macé in Normandy, perhaps by Arian Goths.

The foundation legend of the parish church of Saint-⁠Aubin at Macé says that the two saints made their hermitage near the site of the present building, near a miraculous spring. There are several versions of their martyrdom. In one, they were tossed against a great block of sandstone, but their heads dented the stone and they were unhurt (two marks in the church of Macé are held to be those made by their heads); they were then decapitated and buried. Their relics are enshrined at Bayeux. They are commemorated on 23 July as saints of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.