Gervais, Bishop (d. 1067)
Archbishop of Rheims. His death was said to have been revealed
to a Norman knight, returning from a pilgrimage to
Rome, by a hermit he met on the way. According to popular belief,
the hermit told the knight that on the previous night he
had been disturbed by a vision of demons making a great noise.
He said the demons told him they had been carrying the body
of Gervais from Rheims, but because of his good deeds in life
the body had been taken from them. On his return to Rheims
the knight learned that Gervais was dead, and that the time of
his death corresponded exactly with the time of the hermits vision.
