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Venerable

Severinus of Agaunum

Abbot of Agaunum

Abbot of the monastery of Agaunum, reposed in 507.

Feast
February 11old style February 24
Reposed
5076th century
Place
Agaunum

Life

Saint Severinus of Agaunum was a Burgundian who became abbot of the monastery of Agaunum in Switzerland and reposed in 507.

The Roman Martyrology says that at Château-⁠Landon, through the prayers of Saint Severinus, abbot of the monastery of Agaunum, the Christian king Clovis was delivered from a long illness. No other certain details of his life survive.

He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 11 February (new style).

Commemorated the same day February 11