Saint Ursus of Aosta
![[Saint Ursus of Aosta]](saintu26.jpg "Saint Ursus of Aosta; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Orso of Aosta
Ours of Aosta
- Memorial
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1 February
17 June on some local calendars
- Profile
- Evangelized the area of Digne, Italy.
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
- Irish
- Died
- at Aosta, Italy in the 6th century of natural causes;
relics in the collegiate church in Aosta
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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against faintness
against kidney disease
against rheumatism
children who die before Baptism
Cogne, Italy
invoked in childbirth
Ivrea, Turin, Italy
- Representation
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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
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Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Wikipedia
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
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