Paul Aurelian
Welsh bishop of Léon, Brittany
Feast: 12 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Paul Aurelian (known in Breton as Paol Aorelian or Saint Pol de Léon and in Latin as Paulinus Aurelianus) was a 6th-century Welshman who became first bishop of the See of Léon and one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. He allegedly died in 575, rumoured to have lived to the age of 140, after having been assisted in his labors by three successive coadjutors. This suggests that several Pauls have been conflated. Gilbert Hunter Doble thought that he might have been Saint Paulinus of Wales.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Wikidata Q634405 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Paul Aurelian (CC BY-SA)
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