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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Tranquillus, saint of Dijon

Saint ID

S01270

Reported Death Not Before

530

Reported Death Not After

550

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02448Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry.
E02611Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (43), writes of the curative moss which grows on the tomb of *Tranquillus (saint of Dijon, S01270) in Dijon (eastern Gaul), and how he himself was cured by it. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.