Didier of Cahors
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Saint Didier, also known as Desiderius (c.ā580 AD ā November 15, 655[1]), was a Merovingian-era royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction.
Saint Didier, Bishop of Cahors | |
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Born | c. 580 Albi or Obreges |
Died | (655-11-15)15 November 655 |
Venerated in | Roman Catholicism Eastern Orthodoxy |
Feast | 15 November |
He succeeded his own brother, Rusticus of Cahors, as bishop of Cahors after the latter's murder.[2] Didier was ordained by Sulpitius the Pious, bishop of Bourges, on April 8, 630, and governed the diocese, which flourished under his care, until his death in 655.[1]
Didier's career, like that of his brothers, is an example of a church and a monastic system controlled by the ruling, landholding class that was closely linked to the Merovingian monarchy. "This was no innovation of this period, but rather represented a continuation of a state of affairs which had existed since late Roman and early Merovingian times".[3]