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Saint Antide
SaintFull write-upFranceDate unknown
Feast: 17 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 Besançon in Lugdunensis Gaul, now in France, Saint Antide, bishop and martyr, who tradition says received the sentence of death under Crocus, king of the Vandals.
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 17 June as a bishop of Besançon who tradition says was put to death under the Vandal king Crocus.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 17 June (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3463657 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.