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Saint

Ursus

A hierarch remembered in Western calendars, died around the year 508; few details survive.

Feast
July 30old style August 12
Reposed
5086th century

Life

Ursus was a hermit at the church of Saint Amator in Auxerre in France, and was made bishop of that city at the age of seventy-⁠five. He died in the year 508. He is remembered on 30 July in the Western calendar (new style).

No other details have been preserved. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.

Commemorated the same day July 30