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Augusto di San Sinforiano

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Feast: 7 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)

Born
unknown
Died
560
Beatified
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began

Who they were

Near Bourges in Aquitaine, in France, Saint Augusto, priest and abbot, whose hands and feet were so contracted that he could support himself only on his knees and elbows; healed through the intercession of Saint Martin, he gathered monks around him and devoted himself unceasingly to prayer.

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 7 October as a crippled priest healed through Saint Martin who became an abbot near Bourges.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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