Sacerdos of Limoges
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Saint Sacerdos of Limoges (670
670
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—ca. 720
720
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) is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 saint. He was born near Sarlat and became a monk
Monk
A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

. He was the founder and abbot of Calviac Abbey. He was later appointed bishop of Limoges
Limoges
Limoges |Limousin]] dialect of Occitan) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and the administrative capital of the Limousin région in west-central France....

. Sigüenza
Sigüenza
Sigüenza is a city in the province of Guadalajara in Spain.-History:The site of the ancient Segontia of the Celtiberian Arevaci, now called Villavieja , is half a league distant from the present Sigüenza...

 claimed him also as one of its bishops.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13788a.htm

His mother was Saint Modane.http://www.forum-orthodoxe.com/mai0.php

Sarlat Cathedral
Sarlat Cathedral
Sarlat Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and national monument of France, situated in Sarlat-la-Canéda....

is dedicated to him.

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