Monk Randoald Martyred: Defending His Flock Against a Duke
Randoald, prior of the Benedictine monastery of Grandval, was murdered alongside the missionary Germanus while attempting to defend the local population from a Frankish duke's territorial aggression. Their deaths made both men martyrs of the early medieval Church and helped establish the monastery as a center of Christian resistance and pilgrimage in the Jura region.
February 21, 675
1351 years ago
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