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Hilary of Carcassonne
first bishop of Carcassonne
SaintFull write-upDate unknown
Feast: 3 June (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 Carcassonne in Narbonese Gaul, in France, Saint Hilary, who is held to have been the first bishop of this city, at the time when the Goths were spreading the Arian heresy in this region.
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 June as the man held to have been the first bishop of Carcassonne, at the time when the Goths were spreading the Arian heresy there.
Sources
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