Saint Renaud de Mélinais

Saint Renaud of Mélinais (d. c. 1104) was a Catholic hermit established on the borders of Anjou and Maine. He is also called Regnauld, Reginald, and in Latin, Reginaldus. His feast day is September 17. He was initially a canon regular in Soissons. He then came to place himself under the spiritual direction of Saint Robert of Arbrissel and lived, like him, as a solitary in the forest of Craon (Mayenne). He subsequently settled in the forest of Mélinais, near La Flèche (Sarthe), where he died. He appears in the 2011 French florists' calendar.