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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Delphinus of Bordeaux

Bishop of Bordeaux

Bishop of Bordeaux, who baptized Saint Paulinus of Nola, and reposed around 404.

Feast
December 24old style January 6
Reposed
4045th century
Place
Bordeaux
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Delphinus of Bordeaux was bishop of Bordeaux in France and reposed in 404. He helped to bring Paulinus of Nola to the faith and baptized him, and he was an untiring opponent of Priscillianism. He is a saint of the undivided Church, remembered on 24 December in the Western calendar (new style).

Commemorated the same day December 24