Saint Bain
Ou
Bagne (+ 706)
Evêque de Thérouanne et
patron de la ville de Calais, il s'épuisa dans son ministère pastoral avant de
se retirer à l'abbaye de Fontenelle (actuellement Saint-Wandrille) pour y vivre
ses derniers jours terrestres dans la contemplation. Ses biographes ne
tarissent pas d'éloges, mais avec des adjectifs courants dans ce genre de biographies.
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7313/Saint-Bain.html
8ᵉ siècle
Saint Bain
Baingne
Évêque de Thérouanne et
Patron de Calais
Moine de Fontenelle et disciple de saint
Wandrille, saint Bain devint évêque de Thérouanne en 685. Surnommé l'Apôtre de
Calais pour son zèle évangélique, il se retira ensuite dans son abbaye
d'origine pour y finir ses jours comme abbé. Il est célèbre pour ses
mortifications en faveur des pécheurs et pour avoir rapporté de Rome les
reliques de saint Silas.
SOURCE : https://www.sancteo.com/fr/saints/840-saint-bain-baingne-eveque-therouanne-calais
Saint Bain – Évêque de Thérouanne et
Patron de Calais (706) – Fêté le 20 juin
Aujourd’hui à Calais nous
nous souvenons de Saint Bain. Issue d’une famille illustre il se nommait
Théorodicus Bainus. Il devint disciple de saint Wandrille et moine à
Fontenelle, aujourd’hui l’abbaye de saint Wandrille en Seine-Maritime. Après la
mort de saint Drancius, successeur de saint Omer sur le siège de Thérouanne et
Boulogne, il fut élu pour gouverner ces diocèses. Durant douze années il fut à
la tête de cette église entre l’année 685 et l’an 697.
Il s’appliqua à
évangéliser particulièrement le littoral ; Calais fut le lieu favori de
ses prédications, alors que la ville n’était encore formée que de quelques
cabanes de pêcheurs. On note déjà dans ces temps primitifs une dévotion à la
Vierge-Marie, saint Bain aurait construit un oratoire « à la nomination de
la très ancienne cure de Pétresse (Saint Pierre) ».
Confiant l’administration
de son diocèse à Ravenger, il entreprend un voyage à Rome auprès du pape
Sergius (687-701) qui baptise le roi du Wessex Caedwalla et contribua à
l’évangélisation des Frisons et Saxons. Bain revient de ce pèlerinage avec des
reliques de Silas, compagnon de saint Paul, pour l’église Notre-Dame de
Thérouanne.
Fatigué par son
ministère, en 697 il renonce à l’épiscopat et se retire à l’abbaye de
Fontenelle. Après trois ans dans ce lieu il est à nouveau appelé à des
responsabilités en devenant le 5ème Abbé de ce monastère. Il organisera, lors
des invasions normandes, le transfert des reliques de Wandrille et Ansbert à
Boulogne, et mourut, semble-t-il peu de temps après à une date discutée. On
place ordinairement sa mort en 706.
Il nous reste un souvenir
de saint Bain dans le nom du village de Bainghen, qui signifie
habitation de Bain, ou demeure de Bain. La tradition y place en effet un de ses
lieux de résidence où il avait acquis une terre pour l’église de Thérouanne.
En 846, les reliques de saint Bain furent transportées à Saint-Omer, dans le but de les soustraire aux profanations des Danois.
D’après : Van
Drival, Vies des Saints de l’ancien diocèse Thérouanne ; Paul Guérin,
Les Petits Bollandistes, vies des saints de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament ;
Suzanne Decroos, Notre-Dame de Risban ; http://www.st-wandrille.com/fr/saints-de-fontenelle ; Ferreoli
Locrii pavlinatis Chronicon Belgicvm, Ab anno CCLVIII. ad annum usque
M.D.C. continuo perductum, t. III. ; Jacques Malbrancq De morinis et
morinorum rebus, Volume 2 ; Charles Mériaux, Thérouanne et son
diocèse jusqu’à la fin de l’époque carolingienne : Les étapes de la
Christianisation d’après les sources écrites, Bibliothèque de l’École des
chartes, Vol. 158, n ° 2 (juillet-décembre 2000), p. 377-406. Coolën 5
L’Ermitage de Blendecques, par l’abbé G. Coolen 19- 25 L. J. d’Audibert de
Lussan, par M. LE Roy 11 Saint Bain et l’évangélisation de Calais, par l’abbé E
SOURCE : https://www.paroisses-calais.fr/2019/07/saint-bain-patron-de-calais-124905/
Thérouanne (Pas-de-Calais, Fr) église
Saint-Martin, plaque liste des évêques
Also
known as
Bagne of Calais
Bagne of Thérouanne
Bagnus
Bain
Baino
Bainus
Baiano
Profile
Spiritual student
of Saint Wandrille. Benedictine monk at Fontenelle
Abbey in Gaul (modern France). Bishop of
Terouanne, France in 689. Missionary in
the area of modern Calais, France.
After twelve years he resigned his see and
retired to Fontenelle. Elected abbot in 704. Abbot of Fleury
Abbey.
c.711 of
natural causes
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MLA
Citation
‘Saint Bagne of
Terouanne‘. CatholicSaints.Info. 4 January 2023. Web. 19 June 2026. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bagne-of-terouanne/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-bagne-of-terouanne/
Article
BAIN (Saint) Bishop (June
20) (8th century) Bishop of Terouanne (Saint Omer). After a fruitful Episcopate
he retired to the monastery of Saint Wandrille (Fontenelle) in Normandy, and
later presided, in addition, over that of Fleury or Saint Benoit-sur-Loire. He
passed away about A.D. 711.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Bain”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 17 August 2012.
Web. 19 June 2026. <http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bain/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-bain/
St. Bagne
Feastday: June 20
Death: 710
Bishop and disciple of
St. Wandrille, called Bain or Bagnus in some lists. He was a Benedictine monk at
Fontenelle Abbey in France in
689 when he was named a bishop. Bagne served as a missionary in the area of
modern Calais, in France. After twelve years he resigned his see and returned
to Fontenelle where he was elected abbot in
704. He also governed Fleury Abbey.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1655
Saints of the
Day – Bagnus of Calais
Article
(also known as Bain or
Bainus of Thérouanne)
Died c.710. Saint Bagnus
was a monk at Fontenelle under Saint Wandrille. In 685, he became the fifth
bishop of Thérouanne, which then included Calais. Because Merville, where Saint
Mauront had built Breuil monastery, was in the diocese of Thérouanne, Saint
Bain translated the body of Saint Amatus to Mauront’s newest church at Douai.
When Saints Luglius and Luglianns, two Irish hermits, were murdered by
highwaymen in his diocese, Saint Bain buried them with great honor in the
chapel of his castle at Lilleres, where they are honored as patrons of the
town.
After shepherding his
flock for 12 years, Saint Bagnus resigned his bishopric and retired again to
Fontenelle. Three years later, he was again its abbot. Out of his great
devotion to the relics of the saints, he translated the bodies of Saints
Wandrille, Ansbert, and Wulfram, from the chapel of Saint Paul, built by
Wandrille as the burial-place, into the great church of Saint Peter, in which
the monks celebrated the divine mysteries.
Towards the end of his
life Pepin placed Bagnus in charge of the newly restored Fleury Abbey (now
Saint Benet’s) on the Loire near Orléans, while he still governed Fontenelle.
He is the principal patron of Calais (Benedictines, Husenbeth).
MLA
Citation
Katherine I Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info.
23 June 2020. Web. 19 June 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-bagnus-of-calais/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-bagnus-of-calais/
June 20
St. Bain, Bishop of
Terouanne
[Now St. Omer, and Abbot of St.
Vandrille’s.] HE was fifth bishop of that see, to which he was
promoted before the middle of the seventh century. Merville, where St. Mauront
had built his monastery of Breüil, being in the diocess of Terouanne, St. Bain
translated thence the body of St. Amatus, to the church which St. Maurout had
lately built at Douay. 1 When
SS. Luglius and Luglianus, two Irish hermits, had been murdered by highwaymen
in this diocess, St. Bain buried them with great honour in the chapel of his
castle at Lilleres, where they are honoured as patrons of the town on the 23d
of October. Solitude, “which nourishes prayer as a mother does her child,” as
St. John Damascen says, being always the ruling inclination of our saint, he
resigned his bishopric, and retiring to the abbey of Fontenelle or St.
Vandrille’s, in Normandy, put on the monastic habit, as he was already
possessed perfectly of the spirit, and some time after was chosen the fifth
abbot of that house from St. Wandrille, in 701. Out of his great devotion to
the relics of the saints, he translated the bodies of St. Wandrille, Ansbert,
and Wolfgran or Wulfran, out of the chapel of St. Paul, built by St. Vandrille
for the burial-place, into the great church of St. Peter, in which the monks
celebrated the divine mysteries. Pepin, duke of the French, having founded or
considerably augmented the abbey of Fleury, now called St. Bennet’s on the
Loire, situated nine leagues above Orleans, he committed the same to the
direction of St. Bain, in 706. The saint died about the year 711, and is
honoured on the 20th of June at St. Vandrille’s, and in the Gallican
Martyrologies. See the Chronicle of Fontenelle, the lessons for his festival,
Papebroke more exact than Mabillon, whom he corrects, t. 4. Junij, p. 27
Rev.
Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VI: June. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
Note
1. Bucelin, Annal. Gallo-Flandriæ, l. 2. p.
87. [back]
SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/lives-of-the-saints/volume-vi-june/st-bain-bishop-of-terouanne
San Baino di
Thérouanne Vescovo e abate
Festa: 20 giugno
† Fontenelle, Francia,
711
Vescovo di Thérouanne e
abate di Fontanelle. Nato nel Pas-de-Calais, intraprese la sua missione
pastorale come vescovo, ricoprendo la carica per dodici anni prima di ritirarsi
nell'abbazia di Fontanelle in Normandia nel 701. Qui, asunse il ruolo di abate,
guidando il monastero tra il 704 e il 711. La sua fama raggiunse persino
Fleury, vicino a Orléans, dove, secondo alcuni storici, sarebbe stato nominato
abate da Pipino di Herstal. Sebbene questa nomina non sia confermata da fonti
documentali, la figura di San Baino rimane comunque legata al contesto
religioso e culturale del suo tempo, incarnando l'ideale di un pastore e studioso
dedito alla fede e al sapere.
San Baino nacque nel VII secolo in Francia e, dopo esser stato missionario nel Pas-de-Calais fu nominato vescovo di Thérouanne, la diocesi che anticamente comprendeva Calais. Nell’elenco dei vescovi della città, è stato inserito al quinto posto, dopo Drauscio e prima di Ravengero.
San Baino si dimise dalla carica di Vescovo nel 701, dopo dodici anni di episcopato, per ritirarsi nell’abbazia di Fontanelle.
Tre anni dopo il suo ritiro venne nominato abate.
San Baino è il quinto abate della celebre abbazia presso il villaggio di Saint-Wendrille-Racon (cediglia) in Normandia, di Fontanelle, che era stata fondata da San Vendregisilo intorno all’anno 648, adottando la regola di Colombano di Bobbio.
San Bainio nell’elenco degli abati, è ricordato dopo Hildebert I e prima di San Begnigno. Si presume che abbia retto le sorti del monastero, negli anni tra gli anni 704 e 711.
Secondo alcuni storici, verso la fine della sua vita San Baino è stato nominato abate di Fleury, vicino a Orléans, da Pipino di Herstal, padre di Carlo Martello. Ma dagli elenchi più moderni della serie degli abati, non risulta il suo nome, tanto che negli anni in questione ressero le sorti dell’abbazia Adalbeto fino al 710 e Geilon fino al 729.
Nella diocesi di Calais viene ricordato nel giorno 20 giugno.
Autore: Mauro Bonato
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