John of Réomé, Saint (GIOVANNI DI RÉOMÉ, SANTO) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VI, p. 375

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GIOVANNI of RÉOMÉ, Saint. - Abbot, born in Dijon ca. 450, died at St-Jean de Réomé-en-Auxois (Langres) ca. January 18, 544.

Article illustration — **GIOVANNI** of RIMINI. - St. Clare and Francesca da Polenta. Detail from the frescoes in the presbytery of the church of Santa Maria in Porto Fuori, Ravenna.
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At the age of twenty he retired to the solitude of Réomé, where, gathering companions around him, he founded a monastery to which he gave the Rule of St. Macarius, and which later took his name. After visiting several monasteries in the region he returned convinced that he was not fit to govern, and fled to Lérins. Eighteen months later, at the request of the bishop of Langres, he returned to his foundation, was elected prior, and immediately restored the bloom of piety and discipline. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of monastic life in France. Feast day: January 28.

BIBL.: The life, composed ca. 559 by Abbot Jonas of Bobbio at the request of the monks during a brief stay at Réomé, is found in Acta SS. Ianuarii, III, Paris 1863, pp. 470-84; critical ed. by B. Krusch, in MGH, Script. rerum Merovingic., III, pp. 502-17; school ed.: id., Ionae Vitae sanctorum... Johannis ecc., Hanover 1905, pp. 321-44. Celestino Testore