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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Venerable

Oliver of Ancona

A Benedictine monk near Ancona who died around 1050, venerated by both the Orthodox and Catholic Churches.

Feast
February 3old style February 16
Reposed
105011th century
Place
Ancona
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Oliver of Ancona (also called Oliver of Portonuovo, Oliverius or Liberius) died around the year 1050. He is a saint of the Catholic and of the Orthodox Church. He is commemorated on 3 February.

He is thought to have come from Armenia, or to have been originally a Camaldolese monk from Dalmatia. He became a Benedictine monk at Santa Maria di Portonuovo, a community at the foot of Monte Conero, south of Ancona on the Adriatic coast of Italy. Because of earthquakes and landslides, the monastery was later abandoned.

Commemorated the same day February 3