Antigius

Who they were

Antigio (in French Anthôt or Antège), not to be confused with Saint Antidius, bishop and martyr of Besançon, died before the 9th century in a village now called Saint-Anthôt, in the territory of Mermont in the present diocese of Dijon, where he was buried. Nothing is known of his life; he must have been one of the many itinerant bishops of the age, without a fixed see, who travelled Europe converting pagan and barbarian peoples and founding churches and dioceses.

For fear of Norman raids, the priest Aimone moved his body to Chigny (Saône-et-Loire) and then to Italy, most likely in January 887 when the Normans threatened Autun; his body was finally placed in the monastery of Saints Faustino and Giovita in Brescia, where Aimone himself later became abbot for eight and a half years. Over the centuries he has been variously mistaken for a bishop of Brescia, of Toulon, or a parish priest of Mermont. His feast is 14 November.

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

Itinerant Frankish bishop, converter of pagan peoples, buried at Mermont near Dijon then moved to Brescia; feast 14 November.