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Amand de Strasbourg
SaintResearchedAncient RomePre-congregation
Feast: 26 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
290
Died
355
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
At Strasbourg in Alsace, in present-day France, Saint Amand, who is held to have been the first bishop of this city.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 26 October as the one held to have been the first bishop of Strasbourg.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 26 October (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q454355 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Amandus of Strasbourg (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.