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Hippolyte de Belley
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 20 November (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
686
Died
769
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In the Jura mountains in the region of Lyon in France, Saint Hippolytus, abbot and bishop.
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 20 November as an abbot and bishop in the Jura.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 20 November (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3136142 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.