Saint Volusian of Tours

Memorial

• 18 January

Profile

As a layman, he suffered through years of a terrible marriage. Imperial Roman senator at Tours, France. Bishop of Tours in 488. Exiled to Spain in 496 by Arian Visigoths. May have been martyred, but records are unclear.

Died

• 496 at Toulouse, France

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Volusian of Tours“. Saints.SQPN.com. 17 January 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>