Saint Gummarus
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- Also known as
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Gomer
Gommaire
- Memorial
- 11 October
- Profile
- Son of the Lord of Emblem.
Received no formal education.
Served in the court of Pepin the Short.
Married a shrewish noble woman name Guinmarie; they had no children.
Soldier in Pepin's army, serving eight years in the field in Lombardy, Saxony, and the Aquitaine.
In his absence, his wife abused the servants and withheld funds for their support.
On his return, Gummarus tried to convert her, failed, and they separated in their later years.
He became a hermit at Nivesonck.
With Saint Rumald, he founded an abbey at Lierre.
- Born
- 717 at Brabant, Belgium
- Died
- 774 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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childless people
courtiers
cowherds
difficult marriages
glove makers
hernia
Lier, Belgium
separated spouses
woodcutters
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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