Remigius of Reims
c. 437 AD — January 13, 533 AD · Feast day: October 1
Remigius of Reims became bishop of the ecclesiastical capital of the Frankish region at twenty-one, and served that same see for seventy years — long enough to baptize a king. On Christmas Day 496, he poured water over Clovis I, King of the Franks, and watched roughly three thousand barbarian warriors follow their king into the font, laying the foundation for Catholic France.