REMIGIUS, Archbishop of Rouen
Remigius, Archbishop of Rouen. - A natural son of Charles Martel, educated at court, he succeeded Rainfroy in the archbishopric of Rouen around 754-55.
After a mission entrusted to him by his brother Pepin the Short to Paul I in 760, he introduced into Rouen, following the example of St. Chrodegang at Metz, the chant and Roman liturgical usages which were later extended, by royal decree, to the entire "Frankish" Church. Sent to Desiderius, king of the Lombards, he requested the restitution of the patrimony of St. Peter. It is also believed that he was charged with bringing the body of St. Benedict from Fleury (St-Benoît-sur-Loire) to Monte Cassino, but legend relates that he was prevented from doing so by a miraculous event. He died in Rouen around 771-72 and was buried in the cathedral; under Charles the Bald, his body was transferred to St. Medard of Soissons, and then in 1090 to St. Ouen of Rouen, where it disappeared during the sack of the abbey by the Huguenots. Bishop François I of Harlay included his name and feast (January 19) in the Rouen Breviary of 1627.
REMIGIUS, Archbishop of Lyon
Remigius, Archbishop of Lyon. - Chaplain to Emperor Lothar and King Charles of Provence, he became Archbishop of Lyon in 852. Through the favor he enjoyed with the princes, he secured the restitution of property which the Church of Lyon and several monasteries had lost in previous wars.
He took a vigorous part in the affair of Godescalc, who had revived the controversy over predestination, and for this was treated with excessive severity by Hincmar of Reims. The two responses to Hincmar attributed to R., the *Liber de tribus epistolis* and the *Absolutio quaestionis de generali per Adam damnatione* (PL 121, 985-1084), seem instead to be the work of the deacon Florus (Revue bénédictine, 42 [1930], pp. 149-62). Remigius’ importance is evident in the Councils of Vienne (855), Langres, and Savonnières (859), where the Augustinian doctrine of double predestination was defended against the theses of Hincmar and John Scotus Eriugena, as well as in the Council of Thusey (860), which brought the controversy to an end. He died on October 28, 875, and was buried in the church of St. Justus; in 1287 his relics were transferred to the cathedral, and they were scattered during the religious wars. His feast is recorded in the Lyon Breviary of 1692 on October 26, now observed on October 29.