Antigius

Holy Hierarch Antigius was a Frankish bishop venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He died before the 9th century in a village now called Saint-⁠Anthot, in Burgundy, and was buried there. Nothing is known of his life; he was probably one of the many itinerant bishops, without a fixed see, who traveled through the Europe of that time, converting barbarian and pagan peoples and founding churches and dioceses.

For fear of Norman raids, the priest Aimo carried his body to Chiney in the department of Saône-⁠et-⁠Loire, and then to Italy, most probably in January 887, when the Normans threatened the province and the city of Autun. The body was finally laid in the monastery of Saints Faustinus and Jovita at Brescia, founded a few years earlier by Rampert, of which Aimo was then abbot for eight and a half years. The saint was variously classed as bishop of Brescia or of Toulon, or otherwise. His relics are still kept in the church of Saints Faustinus and Jovita at Brescia, in the altar of the Nativity, in a marble urn of the 17th century carrying the inscription "S. ANTIGY / EP.". He is commemorated on 14 November, by the Western calendar (new style). He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.