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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Virila of Leyre

Abbot of Leyre

Abbot of Leyre in Navarre, reposed around 1000.

Feast
October 1old style October 14
Reposed
100010th century
Place
Leyre
Order
Venerables

Life

Saint Virila of Leyre was abbot of the monastery of the Saviour at Leyre in Navarre, Spain, and he reposed around 1000. He is commemorated on 1 October, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar. Our sources preserve no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day October 1