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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Venantius, priest and abbot in Tours, ob. shortly before 507

Saint ID

S00121

Reported Death Not Before

450

Reported Death Not After

500

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns, Lesser clergy , Miracle-workers in lifetime
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00308Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Venantius (priest and abbot in Tours, shortly before 507, S00121): it presents the saint as a zealous priest experiencing visions and effecting miracles; all in Tours (north-west Gaul) in the period 470/507. Gregory, Life of the Fathers Book 16, written in Latin in Tours, 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Venantius.
E00310Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Venantius (priest and abbot in Tours, shortly before 507, S00121), tells of the posthumous cult and miracles of the saint taking place at his grave and bed in Tours (north-west Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (16.4), written in Latin in Tours, 573/594.
E02401Gregory of Tours, in his Histories (10.31), mentions the tomb of *Venantius (priest and abbot of Tours, ob. shortly before 507, S00121) in a monastery, and the burial of *Licinius, the ninth bishop of Tours (bishop 508-520), in the church of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050); both in Tours. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 591/594.
E02448Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry.
E02558Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (15), describes how people who spend the night in vigils at the grave in Tours of *Venantius (priest and abbot in Tours, ob. shortly before 507, S00121) receive cures. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.
E04983The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 11 October.
E05870Gregory of Tours writes the Life of the Fathers, collecting the lives of twenty Gallic bishops, abbots and recluses; written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview/list of the twenty Lives.