St. Nivard, A Bp. of Rheims

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St. Nivard

St. Nivard, A Bp. of Rheims

Traditional feast

September 1
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on September 1 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Galilean and Roman Martyrologies. Authority: — A Life by Almann, monk of Altvillars, in the 9th cent.] S. Nivard or Nivon belonged to the family of the Kings of Austrasia. The name of his four brothers were Ravo, Theoderam, S. Gundebert, and Baldwin; his brother-inlaw, Childeric, had a daughter, who married S. Regulus (Reuil), afterwards Archbishop of Rheims. S. Nivard was elected about the year 649 to the archbishopric of Rheims. No particulars of any interest have been related concerning him.

Feast days

Feast: September 1

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Nivard's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Berchaire Nivard Hautvillers 07111.JPG · G.Garitan · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.