Venerable
Junian of Mairé
A hermit and abbot in Poitou, reposed around 587.
- Feast
- August 13old style August 26
- Reposed
- 5876th century
- Place
- Mairé
- Order
- Venerables
Life
Junian of Mairé founded the monastery of Mairé in Poitou in France and later lived as a hermit at Chaulnay. He reposed in the year 587. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 13 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 26 August of the civil calendar.
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