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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Laurian of Seville

Bishop of Seville

Bishop of Seville, slain for Christ around 544.

Feast
July 4old style July 17
Reposed
5446th century
Place
Seville
Order
Martyrs

Life

Saint Laurian of Seville was born in Pannonia (now Hungary), was ordained deacon at Milan in Italy and later became archbishop of Seville in Spain. He was martyred at Bourges in France around 544.

He is commemorated on 4 July among the saints of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.

Commemorated the same day July 4