Excerpt from The Lives of the Saints S. Remigius was born at Laon of noble parents, Emilius and Cylinia. His mother Cylinia occurs in the Gallican and the Roman Martyrologies, as a saint, on October 21, and the translation of her relics is noted in some martyrologies on April 5. The brother of S. Remigius was S. Principius, Bishop of Soissons, the father of S. Lupus. His nurse in infancy was Balsamia, venerated as a saint in the Church of Rheims. Remigius was born about the year 435, and was ordained about a.d. 457, when elected, at the age of twenty two, to the bishopric of Rheims, rendered vacant by the death of Bennadius. A singular and picturesque incident led to his election. He was in the great church at Rheims when the Clergy and people were assembled to choose a bishop, when a ray of sun, smiting through a small clerestory win dow, fell on and illumined his head. In the dark church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.