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Venerable

Elias

A Western abbot, reposed in 1042.

Feast
April 16old style April 29
Reposed
104211th century

Life

Saint Elias was an Irish monk, born in Ireland, who in 1020 became abbot of the Irish monasteries of Saint Martin the Great and Saint Pantaleon in Cologne in Germany. He reposed in 1042. No other reliable information about his life survives. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 16 April (new style; 29 April in the old style).

Commemorated the same day April 16