Saint Ursus of Aosta

Also known as

• Orso of Aosta
• Ours of Aosta

Memorial

• 1 February
• 17 June on some local calendars

Profile

Evangelized the area of Digne, France. Fought Arianism. Archdeacon under Bishop Jucundus of Aosta, Italy. When the Arian Ploziano became bishop of Aosta, Ursus and several other canons relocated to the church of Saint Peter just outside Aosta; the site is now known as Sant’ Orso, the church is the collegiate church of Saint Peter and Saint Ursus.

Born

• Ireland

Died

• 6th century in Aosta, Italy of natural causes
• relics in the collegiate church in Aosta

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against faintness
• against kidney disease
• against rheumatism
• children who die before Baptism
• Cogne, Italy
• invoked in childbirth
• Ivrea, Turin, Italy

Representation

• archdeacon holding a staff and book, with birds on his shoulder
• cleric giving shoes to poor people
• cleric striking water from a rock
• man in a religious habit wearing a fur pelisse

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i NorgeOur Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Wikipedia

MLA Citation

• “Saint Ursus of Aosta”. Saints.SQPN.com. 10 August 2010. Web. 20 June 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-ursus-of-aosta/>