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Festus z Valencie
SaintSpainDate unknown
Feast: 31 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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Died
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Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
Saint Festus of Valence, or Sextus, was a priest and bishop of the city of Valence.
Summary translated from the Czech Wikipedia article Festus z Valencie (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
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Sources
- CatholicSaints.Info — Saint Festus of Valencia (also Sextus, Sextius) (citing the Book of Saints, Monks of Ramsgate) — Memorial 31 December; bishop killed with his flock by Chrocus. Feast 31 Dec matches. NOTE: this is the same saint as Q94649512 'Sextius of Valence' — the two Wikidata items are duplicates.
- Wikidata Q56256780 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.