Pientius of Poitiers

Saint Pientius of Poitiers was bishop of the city of Poitiers in Gaul around the middle of the 6th century and reposed around 564. By the episcopal lists he would be the 27th bishop, but only the fourth attested historically from Saint Hilary on. The year in which he became bishop is not known; his predecessor, Daniel, is attested once, at the council of Orléans in 541.

The Life of Saint Radegund tells that Bishop Pientius and Duke Austrapius greatly helped her to build her monastery at Poitiers, around the year 544. According to Gregory of Tours, after the death of Clotaire I, in 561, Austrapius was ordained bishop but withdrew to Champtoceaux and waited for the death of Pientius before taking possession of the diocese. According to the Chronicon of Maillezais, during Pientius's episcopate a church was built at Maille, which after his death became a place of pilgrimage in his honor. Little else is known. The Roman Martyrology commemorates him on 13 March, by the Western calendar (new style). He is a saint of the undivided Church.