Silvanus of Ahun

Silvanus of Ahun is venerated as a martyr and saint in France. According to tradition he was a deacon and was killed by the Vandals at Agedunum or Acitodunum, today Ahun, on 16 October 407. A Russian source also gives the year 264 alongside 407, and tradition calls him also a hieromartyr.

The antiquity of his veneration rests on the fact that there is an ancient tomb in which, by tradition, his relics rest. The tomb is in the crypt of the twelfth-⁠century church dedicated to Saint Silvanus of Ahun. On a wooden panel dated 1639 the saint is shown dressed in a dalmatic, holding a book and a palm branch.

Several places in France bear his name: Saint-⁠Silvain-⁠Bas-⁠le-⁠Roc, Saint-⁠Silvain-⁠Bellegarde, Saint-⁠Silvain-⁠Montaigut and Saint-⁠Silvain-⁠sous-⁠Toulx. He is also regarded as the patron of Ahun and of Château-⁠Chervix.