Saint
Magnus of Avignon
Bishop of Avignon
Governor of Avignon, later a monk and bishop of that city, reposed around 660.
Life
Magnus of Avignon was born at Avignon in Gaul and was a senator and governor of the city. After the death of his wife he joined the monks of Lérins, where his son Saint Agricola had gone before him, and then became bishop of Avignon. He took his son as his coadjutor. He reposed around the year 660. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 19 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 1 September of the civil calendar.
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