Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies; but in the Paris Martyrology on Nov. 15, and in the Limoges Directory of 1 832, on Oct. 16. By Butler on Aug. 26. Authority: — A life of uncertain date.] In the reign of Clovis, S. Amandus lived as a hermit among the forests on the estate of a noble named Ruric, in Haute Vienne, near Rochechouart Ruric built the solitary man a cell, and treated him with great courtesy. A boy, named Junian, ran away from his parents, and joined himself to Amandus. He served him till his death, and inherited his hermitage. Many sick folk came to him to be healed of their disorders; but after a while, a huge snake began to infest the woods, and sting those who came trampling through the bracken in quest of the hermit Junian went forth against it with no weapon save the sign of the Cross, and drove it from the forest, and bade it make its way to the ocean, and plunge into its waves. And now, when ships sight the great sea-serpent playing on the waves, the mariners know it is S. J unian's snake, which may not again re-visit the land, having been banished to the deep by the saint.

The devil so resented the miracles wrought by S. Junian, that one day he ran headforemost at the saint, as he sat warming his knees over the fire, and butted him into the red-hot embers. Junian jumped out of the fire and went out after the devil, who had retired to air himself on a lock above the river Vienne; dealt him a similar blow in the small of his back, and jerked him off the precipice into the river.

Ruric, the noble who had built the cell for Amandus, was possessed by a legion of devils. He was brought to S. Junian, who expelled them so effectually that Ruric was afterwards considered a suitable person to be elected to the vacant See of Limoges. He is known as a writer of epistles in two books, and as having erected at Limoges a church in honour of S. Augustine of Hippo. He died about a.d. 507. On the death of S. Junian, Ruric built a church over his tomb.