Exuperantius

Exuperantius (Exuperancio) was, according to tradition, a Benedictine monk of Italian origin, whose work of evangelizing Spain is very little known; in his last years it is linked to the founding of the medieval hermitage of San Miguel de los Fresnos, whose ruins lie north-⁠east of Fregenal de la Sierra, in the province of Badajoz. According to the text of a supposed gravestone found nearby, he died on the sixth day before the Kalends of June, year 616 of the era, that is 26 May 578, at about eighty-⁠eight years of age. In the guesthouse of the sanctuary of the Virgin of the Remedies in the town an oil portrait of the monk is preserved. The commemoration is on 26 May, in the Western calendar (new style). The story is legendary; venerated locally, as a saint of the undivided Church.