Viventiolus of Lyon

Saint Viventiolus of Lyon (also known as Juventiole) was born in 460 and was archbishop of Lyon from 514 to 523; he reposed on 12 July 524. He was the son of Aquilinus, a nobleman of Lyon and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris, and had a brother, Rusticus. Through his paternal grandmother, Tullia, he was the great-⁠grandson of Saint Eucherius and his wife Gallia.

He was a monk of Saint-⁠Oyend (Saint-⁠Claude) in the Jura, where he was elected prior. Saint Avitus of Vienne recommended him for the see of Lyon and he was close to him. In 517, he and Avitus presided over the Council of Epaone. He also wrote a book, the Life of the Jura Fathers, which describes the beginnings of monasticism in that region. He is venerated as a saint in the archdiocese of Lyon, and the Orthodox calendar commemorates him on 12 July, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.