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Florent
bishop of Vienne
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 3 January (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 Vienne, in Lugdunensis Gaul, in present-day France, Saint Florent, bishop, who took part in the Council of Valence.
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 3 January as a bishop of Vienne who took part in the Council of Valence.
Connected on this site
- Ado of Vienne Saint“Florent or Florentinus is mentioned in the list of bishops of Vienne produced by archbishop Ado of Vienne (799-875) in his Chronicle, according to which however he lived in the previous century during the reigns of the emperors Volusianus (251-253) and Gallienus (253–260) as the 8th bishop of Vienne, and was…” — Wikipedia
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 3 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q93327041 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Florentius of Vienne (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.