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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Aurelian of Ainay

Abbot of Ainay and later Archbishop of Lyon, reposed in 895.

Feast
July 4old style July 17
Reposed
8959th century
Place
Ainay
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Aurelian of Ainay was a monk and abbot of Ainay in France and later archbishop of Lyon. He reposed in the year 895. The sources preserve no further details of his life.

He is commemorated on 4 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 4