Veranus of Vence

Veranus of Vence was the son of Saint Eucherius of Lyon and Galla. With his brother Salonius he was educated at Lérins, first by Hilary of Arles and then by Salvian and Vincent of Lérins. His father dedicated to him a work on the allegorical sense of Scripture.

Veranus became a monk at Lérins and, around 442, bishop of Vence in the south of Gaul, serving at least until 465. In February 464 Pope Hilarus commissioned him to warn Mamertus of Vienne to refrain from irregular ordinations. The date of his repose is uncertain, around 480. His body rests in a carved sarcophagus in the cathedral of Vence. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 10 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 23 September of the civil calendar.