Solemnis (French - Solène, Solen or Solenne; Histoire générale, civile et religieuse de la cité des Carnutes et du pays Chartrain, Michel-Jean-François Ozeray, Chartres 1836 died c. 533) was a Christian saint and bishop. He appears in the Acta Sanctorum (Volume VII, 57) for 25 September. Article - Nominis
He was made Bishop of Chartres in 483. He split off part of the bishopric of Chartres to create that of Châteaudun and made his brother Aventinus its first bishop. Histoire de tous les Archevechez de l'univers, éd. Florentin et Pierre Delaulne, abbé de Commanville, Paris, 1700 Solène, Vedast (bishop of Arras) and Remigius (bishop of Reims) all contributed to Clovis I's conversion to Christianity. Histoire de la ville de Chartres, du pays chartrain, et de la Beauce, Guillaume Doyen, éd. Deshayes, Chartres, 1786 Solène then assisted Remigius in Clovis's baptism in 499Agreed date after world research studies in 1996 and inscribed on the St-Remi Basilica in Reims. and became the king's catechist. He died in Maillé (now known as Luynes, Indre-et-Loire département).
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