A Roman missionary sent to Gaul in the fourth century, he and his disciples set up the sees’ of Chartres, Senlis, Meaux, and Cologne. The first bishop of Paris, he was arrested and beheaded under Valerian. Legend says that he carried his own severed head two thousand paces to the spot where a church was later built in his honor. The method of his execution makes him patron of headaches; the location of his see, the patron of France.
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