Firminus of Mende

Firminus of Mende was bishop of the Gabali, that is, of Mende and Gévaudan, at the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th. Little is known about him. Old calendars and service books record his cult on 14 January, and the Roman Martyrology has him on the same day. He was either the last bishop of the old see of Javols (Anderitum) or the first of Mende; the lists put him third or fourth after Saint Privatus, and some old catalogues do not mention him at all.

Like Saint Frezalus after him, he seems to have settled at Banassac, where he is said to have died in 402. His body is said to have been buried in the church of Saint-⁠Médard at Banassac, where a tomb was found in 1956. Some scholars think he is the same as Saint Firmin of Amiens, in which case he would be a hagiographic duplication. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.