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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Name

Fructuosus, monastic founder and bishop of Dumio and Braga (north-west Spain), ob. 665.

Saint ID

S01554

Number in BH

3194-3195

Reported Death Not Before

665

Reported Death Not After

665

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Monastic founders, Ascetics/monks/nuns
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E01858Valerius of Bierzo, in his Replicatio sermonum (9), tells how a shrine dedicated to *Pantaleon (martyr of Nicomedia, S00596) and other martyrs was built by local monks following divine revelation and thanks to the offerings of the faithful, and consecrated by a bishop, all in the place in which *Fructuosus (monastic founder in Dumio and Braga, S01554) used to pray in the region of Bierzo (north-west Hispania) in the second half of the 7th century. Written in Latin at Bierzo, probably near the end of the 7th c.