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Optatianus

5th-century Bishop of Brescia

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Born
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Died
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Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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Who they were

At Brescia, Saint Optatianus, bishop, who signed the synodal letters on the Catholic faith concerning the Incarnation sent by Eusebius of Milan to Pope Saint Leo.

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 14 July as a bishop of Brescia who signed the synodal letters on the Incarnation sent to Pope Leo.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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