Didier of Cahors

Didier Of Cahors

Saint Didier, also known as Desiderius (c. 580 - November 15, traditionally 655) was a Merovingian royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction.

He succeeded his own brother, Saint Rusticus, as bishop of Cahors and governed the diocese, which flourished under his care, from 630 to 655. Didier's career, like that of his brothers, is exemplary of a church and a monastic system controlled by the ruling, landholding class that was closely linked to the Merovingian monarchy. "This was no innovation of this period, but rather represented a continuation of a state of affairs which had existed since late Roman and early Merovingian times" (Lewis 1999, ch 1).