Saint Jean of Réomay

Also known as

• Jean of Réomé

Memorial

• 28 January

Profile

Hermit at Réomay, France. His reputation for holiness spread, and he began to attract would-be disciples. To escape them he sneaked away, and became a monk at Lérins Abbey. He was sent by his bishop back to Reomay as abbot of its monastery, which became Mount Saint Jean in his honour. He became one of the pioneers of Western monasticism. So strict in his refusal to be around women, he refused to receive his own mother when she visited the monastery.

Born

• 425 at Dijon, France

Died

• 25 January 539 at Réomay, France of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Representation

• Benedictine hermit or monk or abbot near a well with a dragon on a chain

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• For All The Saints
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Jean of Réomay”. Saints.SQPN.com. 27 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jean-of-reomay/>