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Saint

Prosper of Orléans

Bishop of Orléans

Bishop of Orléans in Gaul, reposed around 453.

Feast
July 29old style August 11
Reposed
4535th century
Place
Orleans

Life

Prosper of Orléans was bishop of Orléans in Gaul and reposed around the year 453. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 29 July (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 11 August of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day July 29