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Silvester of Châlon
bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône
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Feast: 20 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Châlon-sur-Saône in Burgundy, now in France, Saint Silvester, bishop, who in the forty-second year of his priesthood, full of days and of virtue, passed to the Lord.
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 20 November as a bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône who passed to the Lord in the forty-second year of his priesthood.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 20 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q124412938 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.