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Porcarius
Abbot and martyr
SaintFull write-upBenedictinesPre-congregation
Feast: 12 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
732
Beatified
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not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
On the island of Lérins in Provence in France, the holy martyrs Porcarius, abbot, and many other monks, who, tradition says, were killed by the Saracens.
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 12 August as an abbot of Lérins who, tradition says, was killed by the Saracens with many of his monks.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 12 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q7229964 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Porcarius II (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.