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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Dizan

A hierarch honored at Tours in France in the age of the undivided Church.

Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.

Feast
May 25old style June 7
Era
8th century
Place
Tours
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Dizan (Dizieins, Dizant, Dicencius) was bishop of Saintes in the 8th century, according to the French source, and is venerated as a saint in the Western Church, on 25 May. The sources also link him to Tours.

He is said to have died at Tours, where he had withdrawn at the time of the Norman invasion, and his body was carried to Ardes in Auvergne. He is patron of the communes of Saint-⁠Yzan-⁠de-⁠Soudiac and Saint-⁠Yzans-⁠de-⁠Médoc. The source gives no other details; since the Norman invasions belong chiefly to the 9th century, the dating remains uncertain.

Commemorated the same day May 25