Severus of Vienne

Saint Severus of Vienne was a priest who preached the Gospel at Vienne in Gaul in the fifth century and died around the year 455. He is venerated as a saint in the Orthodox and the Catholic Church alike and is remembered on 8 August.

He is said to have been Indian by birth and of a wealthy family. The Roman Martyrology says that he settled at Vienne about the year 430. He founded near the city a church in honour of Saint Alban, now called Saint-⁠Alban-⁠du-⁠Rhône. He died in Italy, but his body was brought back to Vienne and buried in the church of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr, which he himself had built.