Verus of Vienne

Saint Verus of Vienne was bishop of the city of Vienne in Gaul in the fourth century. He attended the Council of Arles in 314. The traditional chronology, of which there are conflicting versions, makes him the fourth bishop of Vienne.

His origins and earlier life are unknown. A ninth-⁠century chronicler, Ado, speaks of a Verus, a disciple of the apostles, in the time of Trajan, and scholars such as Chevalier added an earlier Verus on the basis of this text, while a letter of Pope Pius I to him forms part of a collection of "false privileges". He is venerated as a saint, with his feast on 1 August, according to Ado's Martyrology and the Bollandists. He is commemorated on 1 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.