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Saint

Antoninus of Carpentras

Saint of Carpentras, who reposed in the 5th century, venerated in the Western Church.

Feast
September 13old style September 26
Reposed
4735th century

Life

Saint Antoninus of Carpentras, hierarch, was born at the beginning of the fifth century. Drawn to monastic life, he became a monk at the abbey of Lérins and was then raised to the episcopal see of the city of Carpentras (Vaucluse, France), in the Comtat Venaissin. He died in 473. He is regarded as a saint by the Catholic and the Orthodox Church and is commemorated on 13 September, in the West as in the East.

Commemorated the same day September 13