Valentinian of Chur

Saint Valentinian of Chur, hierarch (also Valentian or Valenzio), was bishop of Chur and died on 7 January 548, after about seventy years of life. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church; in the diocese of Chur he is remembered on 9 September, and on 7 January in our record.

In the lists of the bishops of Chur he appears tenth, after Asinius, attested in 451. Nothing is known of his life, but his funerary eulogy has been preserved, placing his death in 548. Only a fragment of the eulogy survives, but in the 16th century it could still be read in full and was copied by the Swiss historian Aegidius Tschudi. His nephew Paulinus, mentioned in the eulogy and probably his successor, had a slab placed on the tomb praising his kindness to refugees, the needy and prisoners. He is said to have enlarged the oratory founded by Lucius of Chur into a monastery.

He was buried in the crypt of the church of Saint Lucius in Chur (according to another view, in the church of Saint Stephen). His veneration at Chur is ancient.