
Saint
Geminian of Modena
Bishop of Modena
Bishop of Modena, reposed around 348.
- Feast
- January 31old style February 13
- Reposed
- 3974th century
- Place
- Modena
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Holy Hierarch Geminian of Modena was a deacon and then Bishop of Modena in the fourth century. Tradition says that he received Saint Athanasius the Great kindly when the latter was passing through Italy on his way to exile in Gaul, and that he opposed Jovinian; Wikipedia adds that he also opposed Arianism. He is mentioned at a council held at Milan by Saint Ambrose in the year 390. Orthodox England gives 348 as the year of his repose, but his presence at the council of 390 shows that he lived later; Wikipedia says he probably died on 31 January 397. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 31 January (new calendar).
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