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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Gaudentius of Arezzo

Bishop of Arezzo

A hierarch remembered in Western calendars; few details survive.

Feast
June 19old style July 2
Era
4th century
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Gaudentius of Arezzo was bishop of Arezzo in Italy in the fourth century, between 381 and 382. He is venerated as a saint through popular devotion.

A medieval Passio ascribes martyrdom to him under an "emperor Valentinian", but it is hardly credible, above all because all emperors of that name were Christians. All that is known is that in the Middle Ages the church of Arezzo honoured this bishop together with his deacon Culmatius (or Columatus) and kept his day on 19 June, and that a church dedicated to him stood in the city.

Commemorated the same day June 19