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3 unusual facts about Saint Roland


Saint Roland

Sometimes St. Roland is also said to be patron saint of Riga, Latvia, while statue of other Roland in full armor stands in a square in the old city.

A local legend has St. Roland encountering a thirsty reaper along the road to Lélex on a hot day.

Saint Roland was the third abbot of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1140 in Chézery, France, in what is now the Diocese of Belley-Ars.



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