Vincent of Montes

Vincent of Montes (also called Vincent of Bierzo) was a Benedictine monk and abbot of the monastery of San Pedro de Montes, near Ponferrada, in El Bierzo, in Spain. He was born in the second half of the 9th century and died at San Pedro de Montes, after 919.

In 908 he succeeded Saint Genadius of Astorga as abbot of the monastery of San Pedro de Montes and worked actively on its rebuilding, completing the great reforms and consecrating the church. He was probably one of the companions who arrived at Montes in 895 from the monastery of Ageum at Ayoó de Vidriales, in the province of Zamora. San Pedro de Montes was then in ruins, and the community undertook to restore it, adopting the Rule of Saint Benedict. For the holiness of his life he was buried in the church of the monastery of Montes.

He is a local saint of the West, from Christian Spain before the great separation; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.