Saint Clair de Marmoutier

Clair of Marmoutier, also known as Saint Clair, died around 356 or 396. He was a Christian martyr and a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, tasked by his companion Saint Martin with overseeing the novitiate at Marmoutier Abbey. His feast day is November 8. Sulpicius Severus records that Clair, accompanied by the false disciple Anatolius, established himself in seclusion not far from the monastery: "A certain Clair, a young man of high nobility who later became a priest and whom a holy death has now led to beatitude, had abandoned everything to join Martin. In a short time, he rose brilliantly to the height of faith and all virtues. Thus, as he had built a hermitage not far from the episcopal monastery, and many brothers stayed with him, a young man named Anatolius, feigning all humility and innocence under the guise of monastic profession, came to live with him and lead a common life with the other brothers for some time." The Saint-Clair chapel, sold as national property during the French Revolution, may preserve his memory from the Benedictines of Marmoutier.