Turibius of Astorga

Saint Turibius of Astorga (Toribio), active in 446 and died in 460 at Astorga, was archdeacon of Tui and an early bishop of Astorga in Spain. He was a zealous maintainer of ecclesiastical discipline and defender of Nicene Christianity against the Galician heresy of Priscillianism, for which he received a supportive letter from Saint Leo the Great, which survives to this day. In 446 he held a local synod. After his death he was revered as a saint. According to tradition, his relics, along with a piece of the wood of the Cross that he had brought from Jerusalem, were transferred to the monastery of Liébana around the middle of the eighth century. He is not to be confused with Turibius of Liébana (of Palencia). He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 16 April (new style; 29 April in the old style).