Saint Urban of Langres

Memorial: 2 April
23 January in Langres, France
Profile: Bishop of Langres, France in 374. During a priod of persecution of the Church, Urban hid for a while in a vineyard. There he converted the vine dressers, who then helped him in his covert ministry. Due to their work, and to Urban's devotion to the Holy Blood, he developed great affection to all the people in the wine industry, and they for him.
Died: c.390 of natural causes
Patronage: against alcoholism
against blight
against fainting
against faintness
against frost
against storms
barrel makers
coopers
Dijon, France
frost
gardeners
Langres, France
vine dressers
vine growers
vintners
Representation: bishop with a bunch of grapes or a vine at his side
bishop with a book with a wine vessel on it
bishop holding a triple cross with grapes on a missal nearby
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