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Germanus of Auxerre

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
378 - 448
Description
Bishop of Auxerre from 418. Visited Britain in 429 to combat Pelagian heresy. He made a second visit to Britain in the last year of his life. See Constantius of Lyons, Vita S. Germani, ed. and trans. R. Borius (Paris, 1965); E. A. Thompson, Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the end of Roman Britain (1984).
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
7 31 yes St Germanus of Auxerre None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations