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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Éterne of Évreux

A saint honored at Évreux in Normandy from the age of the undivided Church.

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

Feast
July 21old style August 3
Era
7th century
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Éterne of Évreux (in Latin Æternus) was a bishop of Évreux in Normandy in the 7th century and is venerated as a saint in the Western Church. He is commemorated on 21 July in the diocese of Évreux.

He is known through his successor, Saint Aquilinus, who gives him only the plain title of "blessed" (beatus). Robert of Torigni also mentions him among the bishops of Évreux, but in the Middle Ages he had no place in the calendar of the diocese, and no church in Évreux or nearby took him as patron. Writings about his life begin with Claude de Sainctes, around 1583. No precise historical source clarifies his life or the martyrdom attributed to him, or establishes a sure link with the saint venerated at Luzarches and Villiers-⁠le-⁠Bel. His death is placed around 670.

The source being thin, this note stops here.

Commemorated the same day July 21