Jucundus of Aosta

Saint Jucundus of Aosta, hierarch, was bishop of Aosta at the beginning of the 6th century and died in 523. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 30 December in the Roman Martyrology, in the Western calendar.

History knows him only from two signatures at the synods held in Rome under King Theodoric the Great to judge the case of Pope Symmachus: the one of 23 October 501 and the one of 6 November 502. He took part as a suffragan of Archbishop Laurence of Milan. Some historians believe he is already mentioned in 496 in a letter of Pope Gelasius I to a bishop Jucundus. He is the third known bishop of Aosta, after Eustasius and Saint Gratus.

His head is kept in a reliquary of 1449, made at the expense of the chapter of Aosta, and his other relics were placed in the cathedral of Aosta on 21 December 1615, in a shrine made from 1613.