Saint of the Day – 1 August – Saint Verus (4th Century) Bishop of Vienne in France. Verus was the 4th Bishop of the Diocese. Also known as – Vère or Vérus, Vero.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Vienne, St Verus Bishop.”
Unknown early French Bishop and Saint
Verus, whose origins and earlier life are unknown, was the Bishop of Vienne. In the official Chronology of the Vienne Diocese, he appears after Saint Martin and before Saint Justus.
The name of Bishop Verus is found in the Chronology of the cCty compiled by Bishop Adone in the second half of the 9th Century and is part of that list; all the first 40 Bishops of Vienne are mentioned as Saints.
His name is also included in the two Episcopal series existing at the time of Bishop Léger, author of a ‘Liber Episcopalis Viennensis Ecclesiae.’
His name appears in the Acts and Decrees of the Council of Arles in 314. This attestation disproves the hypothesis that he was a disciple of the Apostles and a contemporary of Trajan and Nerva.
His Feastday has always been 1 August, according to Ado’s Martyrologie and the Bollandists.
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