Editing Helier (section)

== Veneration ==
[[File:Helier pilgrimage 2005 Jersey.jpg|thumb|In 2005, the tides necessitated an early morning start to the pilgrimage.]]
[[File:Helier pilgrimage eucharist 2005 Jersey.jpg|thumbnail|Helier pilgrimage eucharist 2005 ]]
[[File:Saint Hélyi pèlerinnage 2009 13.jpg|right|thumb|Pilgrimage in 2009.]]

Marculf founded an abbey on L'Islet not far from Helier's hermitage and named it for his pupil. It was later visited by [[Samson of Dol]].

Churches dedicated to Helier can be found in [[Rennes]], St. Helier, [[Beuzeville]] ([[Eure]]), Amécourt (Eure), Barentin (Seine-Maritime), Monhoudou ([[Sarthe]]). Evidence of veneration of the saint can be found in [[La Hague]] in the Cotentin at [[Querqueville]] and also at Omonville-la-Rogue where a 13th-century [[mural]] in the church of St. John the Baptist links Helier with [[Thomas Becket]].

Helier is remembered in Jersey for having brought [[Christianity]] to the island, but is better known in [[Normandy]] and [[Brittany]] as a healing saint. Besides the healing springs at St. Hellier and Bréville, there is also a healing spring at [[Saint-Jouan-des-Guérets]] ([[Ille-et-Vilaine]]), where Helier's name has been deformed by [[folk etymology]] to ''St. Délier'' (''délier'' meaning to untie in [[French language|French]], which may refer to the power to loosen the bonds of illness). There is also a [[chapel]] of St. Helier in the cathedral of [[Trenton, New Jersey]].

The traditional year of his martyrdom is AD 555. His [[feast day]], marked in Jersey by an annual municipal and ecumenical [[pilgrimage]] to the Hermitage, is on July 16.<ref name=societe/> The Hermitage is depicted on the [[Coins of the Jersey pound|Jersey 2 pence coin]] and on the 2010 issue [[Jersey pound|Jersey £10 note]].

In 1870 Hermitage Rock was joined to L'Islet (Elizabeth Castle) by a breakwater.

=== Relics ===
Helier's relics were sent to the abbey of Bellus-Beccus at [[Beaubec-la-Rosière]] (Seine-Maritime)) where they remained until the destruction of the [[abbey]] during the [[French Revolution]].