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Venerable

Junian of Mairé

A hermit and abbot in Poitou, reposed around 587.

Feast
August 13old style August 26
Reposed
5876th century
Place
Mairé

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.

Commemorated the same day August 13