Hieromartyr
Alexander of Fiesole
Bishop of Fiesole
Bishop of Fiesole in Italy, slain for the faith around 590.
Life
Saint Alexander of Fiesole was bishop of the city of Fiesole in Tuscany and died a violent death in the year 590. The sources show him as a brave defender of the Church against the Lombard kings. His enemies waylaid him and drowned him in the river Reno, near Bologna.
He is commemorated on 6 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.
Commemorated the same day June 6
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