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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Alexander, monk with miraculous tomb in Clermont

Saint ID

S01267

Reported Death Not Before

423

Reported Death Not After

538

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02598Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (35), tells of several tombs in and around the church of *Venerandus (bishop of Clermont, ob. 423, S01261) in Clermont (central Gaul): at the tombs of *Alexander (monk with miraculous tomb in Clermont,S01267) and of an unknown person, miraculous things happen; at that of *Liminius (martyr of Clermont, S01193) there is no cult, although an account of his martyrdom survives. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.