Saint Vitonus
- Also known as
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Vanne
Vaune
- Memorial
- 9 November
- Profile
- Monk as a young man.
Bishop of Verdun, France c.500.
Converted all the residents in his diocese, wiping out paganism in the area.
Founded a college for priests.
Known as a miracle worker.
A great Benedictine abbey in Lorraine was later named for him.
- Died
- 525 of natural causes
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
- Verdun, France
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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