Barontus

Saint Barontus, a venerable father (Latin Barontius, French Baronce), was a hermit and is venerated as a saint in the Western Church. He is remembered on 26 March in the Western calendar. The sources do not agree on his time: the German source places him in the 8th century near Pistoia, in Italy, alongside Saint Desiderius; the visionary text attributed to him is dated 678 or 679.

According to a life written in the 11th and 12th centuries, Barontus was the same as a Frankish nobleman of that name from Berry, who lived with his son as a monk at Saint-⁠Pierre de Longoret (today Saint-⁠Cyran-⁠du-⁠Jambot, in the archdiocese of Bourges). To him is attributed the Vision of Barontus, monk of Longoret (Visio Baronti), a text of about 4,700 words, dated 25 March 678 or 679, which tells of his journey in a vision.