Solemnis (bishop)

Solemnis (French - Solène, Solen or Solenne[1]; died 24 September 507) was a Christian saint and bishop. He appears in the Acta Sanctorum (Volume VII, 57) for 25 September.[2]

He was made Bishop of Chartres in 483. He split off part of the bishopric of Chartres to create that of Châteaudun and made his brother Aventinus its first bishop[3]. Solène, Vedast (bishop of Arras) and Remigius (bishop of Reims) all contributed to Clovis I's conversion to Christianty[4]. Solène then assisted Remigius in Clovis's baptism in 499[5] and became the king's catechist. He died in Maillé (now known as Luynes, Indre-et-Loire département).

References
  1. (in French) Histoire générale, civile et religieuse de la cité des Carnutes et du pays Chartrain, Michel-Jean-François Ozeray, Chartres 1836
  2. (in French) Article - Nominis
  3. (in French) Histoire de tous les Archevechez de l'univers, éd. Florentin et Pierre Delaulne, abbé de Commanville, Paris, 1700
  4. (in French) Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain, et de la Beauce, Guillaume Doyen, éd. Deshayes, Chartres, 1786
  5. Agreed date after world research studies in 1996 and inscribed on the St-Remi Basilica in Reims.


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