Adalhelm of Séez
French Roman Catholic saint
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Adalhelm[a] (died c. 910) was the bishop of Séez for twenty-six years starting around 884.[1] He was a Benedictine monk and abbot at the abbey of Anisole.[b]
Adalhelm | |
|---|---|
| Abbot and Bishop | |
| Died | c. 910 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church,Orthodox Church, True Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 10 November |
Adalhelm wrote a life and miracles of Saint Opportuna of Montreuil, Vita et miracula Sanctae Opportunae.[2] It includes an autobiographical account of how he was captured by Vikings in the year of his consecration and sold into slavery. It is the only first-hand account of a Viking slave. He escaped or was redeemed and returned to Séez, where he fulfilled a vow had made by writing the life of Opportuna. The Vita survives only in a 14th-century manuscript and an early modern edition.[3]
Notes
- Also spelled Adelhelm, Hadelin, Adelelme, Adelin.
- The monastery of Anisole, Maine, was founded by the hermit Calevisus (Saint Calais, 460-541), to whom the monastery was later rededicated, and from whom the town of Saint-Calais took its name.
