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For the abbey please see Abbey of St. VaastSaint Vedast or Vedastus also known as Saint Vaast (in Flemish Norman and Picard) or Saint Waast (also in Picard and Walloon) and Saint Gaston in French (died c. 540) was an early bishop in the Frankish realm. At the beginning of the sixth century Saint Remigius bishop of Reims profited by the good will of the Frankish monarchy to organize the Catholic hierarchy in the north of Gaul.