Saint Nazarius (Abbot)

Saint Nazarius (Abbot)

Saint Nazarius ( _fr. Saint Nazaire) was the fourteenth abbot of the monastery of Lérins, [CathEncy|title=St. Nazarius|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10727b.htm] probably sometime during the reign of the Merovingian Clotaire II (584-629). He successfully attacked the remnants of paganism on the southern coast of France, overthrew a sanctuary of Venus near Cannes, and founded on its site a convent for women, which was destroyed by the Saracens in the 8th century. His name is inscribed on the calendar of saints of the French Church, on 18 November.

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