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Personal data Saint Desideratus Bishop of Bourges 

  • He was born March 512 in Sancy-les-Cheminots, Aisne, Picardie, France.
  • Title: Bishop of Bourges
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 543 23d Bishop of Bourges.
    • He sought to eliminate simony and heresy in Clota a secretary for King Clotaire.
  • Religion:
    • French saint in the Christian church from Soissons.
    • fought against Nestorianism.
    • his brothers, Deodato and Didier, died as a martyrs.
    • one of the greatest bishops of the Merovingian.
    • Feast Day: May 8.
    • patron saint of rain.
    • Among the miracles attributed to him are the cure by the laying on of hands of a demoniac of Verdun, the cure of an Anjou miller of a mortal wound, and of a dying man who remained in good health for 20 years afterwards..
    • He came from a family of saints, as his father, Auginus, mother, Agia, and brother, Deodatus, were all canonized. The parents taught the two boys to care for the poor and to give away all of their material possessions to aid others..
    • about 556/558 held to be the founder of the Autun, France, monastery of St. Symphorien, part of what later became Benedictine Abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés.
    • in the year 550 attended the Council of Auvergne.
    • on October 28, 549 attended the 5th Council of Orleans held under King Childebert I after a pilgrimage to Rome.
  • He died on May 8, 550, he was 38 years old.
  • He is buried in Bourges, Cher, Centre-Val de Loire, France.
  • A child of Augisus de Soissons and Agia d'Aise
  • This information was last updated on September 9, 2021.

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Agia d'Aise
462-± 570

Desideratus Bishop of Bourges
512-550


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