Saint Victorian of Asana

Memorial

• 12 January

Profile

Founded monasteries and hospices in Italy. Travelled and settled briefly in France. Founded and directed a community of monks at Asana (modern Saint Victorian) in the diocese of Barbastro, in the Spanish Pyrenees. Saint Venantius Fortunatus wrote well of him.

Born

• Italian

Died

• c.560 in Spain of natural causes
• relics at Montearagón Abbey, Spain

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Victorian of Asana”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 January 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-victorian-of-asana/>