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Awertyn
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 5 May (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 Vençay near Tours in France, Saint Awertyn, deacon, who, having followed Saint Thomas Becket into exile, returned after his murder to Vençay and led the life of a hermit there.
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 5 May as a deacon who followed Saint Thomas Becket into exile and later lived as a hermit at Vençay.
Connected on this site
- Thomas Becket Saint“At Vençay near Tours in France, Saint Awertyn, deacon, who, having followed Saint Thomas Becket into exile, returned after his murder to Vençay and led the life of a hermit there.” — this site's research
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 5 May (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q9163051 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.