Lienne de Luçon

Who they were

Leonio (Latin Leonius; French Lienne) was born in Poitiers to a Christian family. He studied Scripture and theology and was ordained priest by Saint Hilary, the bishop of Poitiers who defended the doctrine of the Trinity against Arianism, and became his disciple and confidant.

He followed Hilary into exile when the emperor Constantius II began persecuting Christians who upheld the Trinity, preaching the Gospel and fighting Arianism through the years abroad. He attended Hilary on his deathbed and himself died in old age at the end of the 4th century. His relics were translated to La-Roche-sur-Yon in 994 but were scattered during the Hundred Years' War. The diocese of Luçon keeps his feast on 3 February, and Poitiers on the 14th of the same month.

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

Priest of Poitiers and disciple of Saint Hilary; called Lienne in the diocese of Luçon, where his feast is 3 February.