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
ID | Title | E00308 | Gregory 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. | E00310 | Gregory 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. | E02401 | Gregory 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. | E02448 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry. | E02558 | Gregory 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. | E04983 | The 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. | E05870 | Gregory 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. |
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