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Remigius was born around the year of Our Lord 437 to the Frankish count Aemilius and St. Celine. His brother Principius, nephew Lupus, and nursemaid Balsamia are also saints. Remigius was an excellent and pious student, and at the age of just twenty-two, despite his reluctance, he was made Bishop of Rheims. He was famed for piety, wonder-working, and the most eloquent preaching of his time, according to St. Sidonius Apollinaris. In the year of Our Lord 496, with the aid of St. Vedast, or Gaston, Remigius baptized Clovis, king of the Franks. Clovis had resisted conversion until, at the urging of his wife, Queen St. Clotilde, he called upon God’s aid in battle and won a glorious victory. When taught for the first time of Christ’s Sacrifice on Calvary, the warrior king was deeply moved, and cried out, “Had I been present with my brave Franks, we would have avenged all His injuries!” France is known as the “eldest daughter of the Church” because of her king’s baptism, which began the conversion of the Frankish people. Remigius, the Apostle of the Franks, died in the year of Our Lord 533 after a long and holy episcopate.
AT Rheims, in France, St. Remigius, bishop confessor, who converted the Franks to Christ, regenerated Clovis, their king, in the sacred font of baptism and instructed him in the mysteries of faith. After he had been many years bishop, and had distinguished himself by his sanctity and the power of working miracles, he departed this life on the 13th of January. His festival, however, is kept on this day, when his sacred body was translated.
At Rome, blessed Aretas and five hundred and four other martyrs.
At Tomis, in Pontus, the holy martyrs Priscus, Crescens, and Evagrius.
At Lisbon, in Portugal, the holy martyrs Verissimus, and his sisters, Maxima and Julia, who suffered in the persecution of Diocletian.
At Tournay, St. Piaton, priest and martyr, who, with blessed Quinctinus and his companions, went from Rome to Gaul to preach the faith, and afterwards, in the persecution of Maximian, having consummated his martyrdom, passed from earth to heaven.
At Thessalonica, St. Domninus, martyr, under the same Maximian.
At Ghent, St. Bavo, confessor.
At Orvieto, St. Severus, priest and confessor.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.