Valentine of Passau

{{short description|Monk and abbot venerated in the Catholic Church}}

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|name= Valentine of Passau

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|feast_day = 7 January

|venerated_in = Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church

|image =File:Valentin von Raetien2.jpg

|caption = Valentine of Passau

|death_date=7 January 475

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|titles =Bishop, Missionary, Venerable

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|attributes = bishop preaching to pagans

|patronage = convulsions, cramps, epilepsy{{cite web |last1= Baring-Gould | first1 = Sabine | title = The Lives of the Saints |volume =11 | url = https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46947/46947-h/46947-h.htm#Page_90 | website = The Lives of the Saints |publisher= | date=1898}}

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Valentine of Passau (died 7 January 475) was a bishop, abbot, monk, and hermit, who is venerated as a saint in Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism.{{Cite web |title=Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome |url=http://www.orthodoxengland.org.uk/saintsv.htm |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.orthodoxengland.org.uk}}

Biography

He was a papal missionary bishop to Rhaetia (present-day Switzerland, Bavaria, Tyrol, and South Tyrol); and among the first patrons of Passau. He finally lived as a hermit in Zenoburg, Merano, South Tyrol, northern Italy.{{cite web|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-valentine-of-passau/|title=Saint Valentine of Passau|date=January 7, 2013|publisher=}}

References

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Sources

  • Nirschl, Joseph (1889). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ow9TZSfUATMC&pg=PA7 Der heilige Valentin, erster Bischof von Passau und Rhätien: eine historisch-kritische Untersuchung aus dem kirchenhistorischen Seminar der Universität Würzburg.] {{in lang|de}}. Mainz: Kirchheim, 1889.

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Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Passau

Category:5th-century bishops in the Roman Empire

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