Viator

Saint Viator (Viatre), a venerable father, was a hermit in Sologne in the 6th century, venerated as a saint by the Catholic and the Orthodox Church, according to a French source. He is remembered on 5 August.

Little is known of him. A legend composed in the 9th century by the monks of the monastery of Micy makes him one of the first monks of their abbey. He is said to have entered at fifteen a monastery led by Abbot Trigetus, of unknown location; then, hearing of the holiness of Abbot Mesmin the Elder, he went to the monastery of Saint-⁠Mesmin at Micy, where he became friends with another monk, Avitus of Micy. Later he settled in Sologne as a hermit, in a small village that would be called Tremblevy. Sensing his death near, he carved his coffin from an aspen trunk, which was buried in the church with the saint's body; from this miracle the village takes its name, "the village of the aspen".

In the 9th century his tomb was placed in a crypt. In 1597 the chapter of Orléans recognized the relics and placed them in a reliquary.