Blessed Reinaldo Of Melinais
Also known as: Reinaldo of Angers; Rainaud…; Reginald…
Feast Day
17-Sep
Born
Picardy, Gaul (in modern France)
Died
17 September 1104 in Mélinais, Angers, France of natural causes; buried in the chapel of Saint John the Evangelist that Reinaldo had built; the Saint Augustine abbey was built on the site of his tomb; over the years the relics of Blessed Reinaldo were enshrined and then shifted around the complex several times; relics hidden in the parish church of Candé, Maine-et-Loire, France during the anti–Catholic persecutions of the French Revolution, and are enshrined there today
Biography
Blessed Reinaldo of Melinais, also known as Reinaldo of Angers, Rainaud, and Reginald, was born in Picardy, Gaul (present-day France). As a young man, he felt a deep calling to the religious life and joined the Augustinian Canons Regular convent of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France.
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