{{Short description|Saint of the Catholic Church}} {{Infobox saint | name = Saint Monitor | titles = Bishop | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = c. 490 | death_place = Orléans | venerated_in = Catholic Church | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | feast_day = November 10 | attributes = | patronage = | major_shrine = | commons = | wikisource = | wikiquote = }}
'''Saint Monitor''', also known as '''Saint Moniteur<ref name="live">{{cite book |author = Paul Guérin |title = Les petits Bollandistes: vies des saints. T. XIII, Du 28 octobre au 30 novembre / d'après les Bollandistes, le père Giry, Surius... ; par Mgr Paul Guérin |date = 1876 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |page = 309 |url = https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30743s/f315.item |language = French}}</ref>''' (died c. 490<ref name=":1">{{cite book |author = Érasme Duchateau |title = Histoire du diocèse d' Orléans depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours |date = 1888 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |publisher = Herluison |page = 16 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0X3wUUuatBQC&dq=info:vz3CKnRoqLIJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PR1 |language = French}}</ref>), was the twelfth Bishop of Orléans in France and is recognized as a Catholic saint.<ref>{{cite book |author = Léon de Buzonnière, Charles François Joseph Pensée |title = Histoire architecturale de la ville d'Orléans |date = 1849 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |publisher = V. Didron |page = 26 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IN8DAAAAYAAJ&dq=Saint+Moniteur+d'Orléans&pg=PP7 |language = French}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author = Thomas Head |title = Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orléans, 800-1200 |date = 2005-11-24 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |isbn = 978-0-521-02342-9 |publisher = Cambridge University Press |page = 338 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2rsi3Nm2BWMC&q=Monitor&pg=PR9 |language = English}}</ref>
Monitor became the bishop of Orléans around 472.<ref>{{cite book |title = The Catholic Encyclopedia: New Mexico-Philip |date = 1911 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |publisher = Appleton |page = 318 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_gI4POckG6QC&q=Monitor |language = English}}</ref> His feast day is celebrated on November 10.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="live" /><ref>{{cite book |author = Maurice Drake, Wilfred Drake |title = Saints and Their Emblems |date = 1971 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |isbn = 978-0-8103-3032-0 |publisher = Gale Research Company |page = 91 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8LYAAAAMAAJ&q=Monitor |language = English}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author = Catholic Church |title = The Roman Martyrology |date = 1946 |access-date = 2024-10-18 |publisher = Newman bookshop |page = 255 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xZ5lAAAAMAAJ |language = English}}</ref>
== See also == * veneration of saints * prayer for intercession of saints * List of Catholic saints
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Monitor}} Category:French Roman Catholic saints Category:Bishops of Orléans Category:5th-century bishops Category:490 deaths