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Namatius
French bishop of Vienne
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 17 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
485
Died
559
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Namatius (died 558/60) was the rector of Provence under the Merovingians and later bishop of Vienne from c. 552 until his death in office. He is probably identical to the person with the same name recorded among the attendants at the Council of Orange in 529.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- Wikidata Q3335424 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Namatius (bishop of Vienne) (CC BY-SA)
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