Goericus of Metz

Paul the Deacon, the only early source, gives him a single sentence: after Arnulf, Goericus — also called Abbo — governed the church of Metz as its thirtieth bishop. The catalogue of bishops gives him eighteen years of episcopate and a death on 19 September, without a year; 643 and 647 are reconstructions. He came from Aquitaine, and had Arnulf's body brought back to Metz, the latter having died a hermit in the Vosges. The late Life credits him with a cured blindness and a daughter abbess at Épinal; but it was Theodoric I who transferred his relics there around 980, three and a half centuries after his death — Goericus is its patron, not its founder.