Saint Vaast

Also known as: Foster
Gaston
Vaat
Vedast of Arras
Vedast
Vedastus
Memorial: 6 February
Profile: Recluse. Worked with Saint Remigius to convert the Franks. Priest. Instructed King Clovis in the faith. Bishop of Arras and of Cambrai. On the night he died, the locals saw a luminous cloud ascend from his house, apparently carrying away Vaast's soul.
Born: c.453 in western France
Died: 539-540 at Arras of natural causes
Canonized: Pre-Congregation
Patronage: children late learning to walk
Arras, Boulogne and Saint-Omer, France, diocese of
Representation: bishop raising to life a goose which a wolf has brought to him
Additional Information: Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia Golden Legend, by Jacobus de Voragine
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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