Venerable
Aredius
An abbot in Limousin, founder of the monastery at Saint-Yrieix, reposed in 591.
- Feast
- August 25old style September 7
- Reposed
- 5916th century
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Aredius was born around 510 at Limoges in France. He was chancellor to King Theudebert I of Austrasia and later abbot of Attane, the monastery he founded in the Limousin, which after his repose took his name. The town of Saint-Yrieix grew up around it. He reposed on 25 August 591. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 25 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 7 September of the civil calendar.
Commemorated the same day August 25
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