# Mellonius > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mellonius > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Mellonius.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellonius > Source revision: 1248181343 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|4th-century Bishop of Rotomagus (Rouen)}} {{About|the 4th-century, possibly legendary, Bishop of Rouen|the Bishop of Rennes|Melaine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} {{Use British English|date=October 2015}} {{Infobox saint |name=Saint Mellonius |birth_date= c. 229 |death_date= 314 |feast_day= 22 October |venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church
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[Church in Wales](/source/Anglicanism) |image= File:Baie chœur 208 Saint-Ouen Rouen Mellon.JPG |imagesize= |caption= |birth_place= Llanewrwg (St Mellons), Wales |death_place= Hericourt, France |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes= |patronage= |major_shrine=Church of St Mellon in St Mellons, Cardiff, Wales |suppressed_date= |issues= |prayer= |prayer_attrib= }} Saint '''Mellonius''' (229-314) was an early 4th-century [Bishop of Rotomagus](/source/Archbishop_of_Rouen) (now [Rouen](/source/Rouen)) in the [Roman province](/source/Roman_province) of [Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis](/source/Gallia_Lugdunensis) (now [Normandy](/source/Normandy) in [France](/source/France)). He is known only from a 17th-century 'Life' of little historical value, meaning the historicity of his existence is uncertain.David Hugh Farmer, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (5 rev. ed.) ([Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2011) [https://books.google.com/books?id=_zJJtvK2_KsC&dq=merewenna+dictionary+of+saints&pg=PA307 Page 307]. ==Legend== Mellonius (surnamed Probus) is said to have been born near [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff) in [Wales](/source/Wales), presumably at [St Mellons](/source/St_Mellons), although the saint there is generally thought to be Saint [Melaine](/source/Melaine), [Bishop of Rennes](/source/Bishop_of_Rennes). The two have, unfortunately, been hopelessly confused in many biographies. Mellonius' story tells how he travelled to [Rome](/source/Rome) to pay the [British](/source/Roman_Britain) tribute. He was there converted to [Christianity](/source/Christianity) by [Pope Stephen I](/source/Pope_Stephen_I),[Sabine Baring-Gould](/source/Sabine_Baring-Gould) (1907). ''Lives of the British Saints'' who ordained him priest and later consecrated him a bishop. Shortly after the martyrdom of Pope Stephen in 257, Mellonius set out for Gaul. He succeeded [Nicasius of Rouen](/source/Nicasius_of_Rouen) as Bishop of Rouen in 261. After a long episcopate, in 311, he retired to a hermit's cell at a place called Hericourt, where he died A.D. 314.[https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-mellonius/ Monks of Ramsgate. “Mellonius”. ''Book of Saints'', 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 22 October 2016] Mellonius was succeeded by [Avitianus](/source/Avitianus). He is sometimes confused with Mellonius, [Bishop of Troyes](/source/Bishop_of_Troyes), from 390 to 400. ==Veneration== His feast day is 22 October. In the English translation of the 1956 edition of the [Roman Martyrology](/source/Roman_Martyrology), 'St Mellon' is listed under 22 October with the citation: At Rouen, St Mellon, Bishop, who was ordained by Pope St Stephen and sent thither to preach the Gospel.''The Roman Martyrology'', 1961, The Newman Press, Westminster & Maryland, page 231. In the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, Mellonius is listed under the same date, 22 October, with the Latin name ''Mallóni''. He is mentioned as follows: 'At Rothómagi (Rouen), bishop, who in that city announced the Christian faith and handed on the episcopate'.''Martyrologium Romanum'', 2004, Vatican Press (Typis Vaticanis), page 584. Bishop Mellonius is depicted in a fifteenth-century illuminated Book of Hours.[http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/79/76859 Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, The Morgan Library and Museum] Mellonius was buried at Rouen, but his remains were subsequently translated to a church in [Pontoise](/source/Pontoise) towards the end of the eighth century to protect them from Norse warbands. They remained there until they were lost during the [French Revolution](/source/French_Revolution). ==Legacy== [[File:St Mellons Parish Church (1) - geograph.org.uk - 1493805.jpg|thumb|[St. Mellon's Parish Church](/source/St_Mellons_Church)]] St. Mellon's Church in St. Mellons, Cardiff is dedicated to Mellonius of Rouen. A fair used to be held on his feast day in the village of St Mellons.[https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/m262/churches-en/st-mellons-parish-church/ Kellen, David. "St Mellons Parish Church", The Parish of St. Mellons, The church in Wales] The church was previously dedicated to St. Lucius, but was changed upon the arrival of the Normans.[https://books.google.com/books?id=3hYJAQAAIAAJ&dq=Mellonius+of+Rouen&pg=PA73 Cormack, George. "St. Mellon", ''The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales'', Vol. 11, (Giuseppe Mattei,ed.), Daniel Owen, Howell and Company, 1887, p. 72]{{PD-notice}} The church at [Thiédeville](/source/Thi%C3%A9deville) is dedicated to him at [Héricourt](/source/H%C3%A9ricourt-en-Caux), where there was a [holy well](/source/holy_well). There is also a church dedicated to St. Mellon in Plomelin, Brittany. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://archive.today/20121224043809/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/parishholding/monmouth/m262-en/history-en/who-was-st-mellon Who Was Saint Mellon?] - article at the parish website of St Mellon's Church in St Mellons, Cardiff *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313050230/http://www.hallam-co.com/Gloucesterdetails.asp?uid=488 Geographical Essay] appended to estate agent's particulars *[https://web.archive.org/web/20121003063837/http://www.rumneyhistory.org.uk/main/index.php?topic=Maps Rumney History] summary {{authority control}} Category:311 deaths Category:4th-century bishops in Gaul Category:Bishops of Rouen Category:Welsh Roman Catholic saints Category:Medieval Welsh saints Category:4th-century Christian saints Category:Gallo-Roman saints Category:Year of birth unknown --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Mellonius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellonius) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellonius?action=history)). 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