Venerable
Faciolus
A monk of the Abbey of Saint Cyprian at Poitiers, reposed around 950.
- Feast
- September 7old style September 20
- Reposed
- 95010th century
- Place
- St Cyprian
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Faciolus was a monk of the abbey of Saint Cyprian at Poitiers in France. He reposed around the year 950. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 7 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 20 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.
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