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Saint

Ternatius of Besançon

Bishop of Besançon

Bishop of Besançon in Gaul, reposed around 680.

Feast
August 8old style August 21
Reposed
6807th century
Place
Besançon

Life

Saint Ternatius of Besançon (Terniscus) was the eleventh bishop of Besançon in the east of France, and he reposed around 680.

He is commemorated on 8 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no account of his life.

Commemorated the same day August 8