Carilefus (Saint-Calais)
Saint Carilefus (also Areleffus, Arileff, Carilephus, Karilef (us); French Calais ; † around 540 or around 590) was abbot and founder of a monastery in today's Saint-Calais , a municipality in the Sarthe department in the French region of Pays de la Loire . He is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church . His feast day is July 1st .
Life
Carilefus grew up in a noble family in the Auvergne . He was educated in the former abbey of Saint-Ménelée in Menat in the Puy-de-Dôme department and later accepted into the religious community as a monk. After a few years he left the monastery with St. Avitus and entered with him the Saint-Mesmin de Micy monastery , which today belongs to the commune of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin in the Loiret department . There the two were ordained priests. They soon left this monastery as well and went to what was then the province of Le Perche , where they parted ways. Carilefus traveled on with two faithful companions to live as a hermit in a lonely area on the banks of the Anille . There he founded, since other disciples had joined him, the Anisole Abbey, for which he had received land from the Merovingian king Childebert I. The place that arose around the monastery was later named after Saint Carilefus Saint-Calais .
Relics
The bones of the saint are kept in the Notre-Dame church in Saint-Calais . A silk fabric embroidered with hunting scenes from the 6th or 7th century and of Sassanian or Byzantine origin, consisting of two parts, is venerated there as the shroud of the saint. Wrapped in this fabric, the monks of Anisole Abbey in the 9th century are said to have brought the remains of their founder, fleeing from the Normans, to safety in Blois , where they were later kept in the Saint-Calais chapel of the castle of Blois . In the 17th and 18th centuries, the bones were returned to Saint-Calais.
Patronage
- The Saint-Calais chapel in the castle of Blois is named after Saint Carilefus.
Web links
- Joachim Schäfer: Carilefus von Le Mans Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints (accessed on February 29, 2016)
- Stadler's Lexicon of Saints: Carilefus Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints (accessed on February 29, 2016)
- Saint Carilephus, first abbot of Anille, in the Maine province heiligenlegend.de (accessed on February 29, 2016)
- Avitus of Orleans and Carilefus of Maine kirchlich.net (accessed February 29, 2016)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ancienne abbaye Saint-Ménelée in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Le suaire de Saint-Calais ( Memento des Originals of February 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Communauté de communes du Pays Calaisien (accessed February 29, 2016, French)
- ↑ Sudarium (suaire) de saint Calais in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carilefus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Areleffus; Arileff von Anille; Arileff of Calais; Calais; Carileffus; Carileffus of Anille; Carileffus of Calais; Carilephus; Karilef, Karilefus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Founder and first abbot of Anisole Abbey and namesake of Saint-Calais |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 540 or at 590 |
| Place of death | Saint-Calais |