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May 1 · Bishop

St. Oriens of Auch

St. Oriens of Auch

Traditional feast

May 1
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

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Bishop

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on May 1 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authorities Two lives of uncertain date.] S. Oriens, Orientius, or Orens, was born at Huescar, in the marches of Aragon. He sold his property, gave the price to the poor, and retired as a hermit to the valley of Lavedan. He became Bishop of Auch, about a.d. 419, and was sent as ambassador from Theodoric the Ostrogoth to sue for peace to the Roman general Aetius, in which he was successful. He is author of a religious poem called “Commonitorium" still extant, and died in a.d. 439, after having laboured diligently to root out the relics of paganism in his diocese.

Feast days

Feast: May 1

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Oriens of Auch's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.