Biography
Angelelmus
About Angelelmus
Angelelmus was a bishop of Auxerre in the early ninth century. The diocese’s episcopal list places him after Aaron and before Heribald, giving his tenure as 813–828. The Norwegian Catholic notice gives approximately the same period. Vincent Tabbagh’s study instead uses 812–829. These differing limits counsel caution about a precise chronology.
The episcopal history remembers him as a priest and abbot of Saints Gervasius and Protasius before his election as bishop. It praises his prayer and generosity to poor people, even relating that he sometimes pretended to be ill so that he could give away resources without opposition. This anecdote belongs to the account’s devotional portrait of him.
His gifts also served communal worship. The account describes silver altar panels, lamps, chalices and a large cross, together with provision for the cathedral’s canons and smaller churches. It says that he was buried at Saint-Germain. Tabbagh identifies the relics housed in his shrine for Amâtre as contact relics, including a garment, rather than the saint’s bodily remains.
His title requires care: the diocesan list calls him Blessed Angelelme, while the Norwegian notice uses Saint and acknowledges uncertainty between the two titles. Its received commemoration falls on 7 July. The local diocesan designation is retained here without implying a modern beatification decree or a universal feast.
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