Saint
Valerius of Sorrento
Bishop of Sorrento
Bishop of Sorrento in Italy, reposed in 453.
- Feast
- January 16old style January 29
- Reposed
- 4535th century
- Place
- Sorrento
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Saint Valerius of Sorrento was bishop of the city of Sorrento in Italy and reposed around 453.
He was living as a hermit when the people of Sorrento took him from his solitude and made him their bishop. No other details of his life survive.
He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 16 January (new style).
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