530) to confer on him Holy Orders, and caused him to be chosen as his successor. His exemplary piety and his knowledge, considerable for that time, decided the Bishop of Vermand (d. He often accompanied his father on business to Vermand and to Tournai, and frequented the schools, carefully avoiding all worldly dissipation. His youth was entirely consecrated to the practise of Christian virtues and to the study of sacred and profane letters. Gildardus, Bishop of Rouen, was his brother. His father, Nectardus, was of Frankish origin, while his mother, named Protagia, was Gallo-Roman. Médard of Noyon Bishop of Noyon, born at Salency (Oise) about 456 and died in his episcopal city June 8, about 545.
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