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Also known as

• Limin
• Liminéè
• Limineo
• Limiunius
• Linguin

Memorial

• Sunday after 13 May
• formerly 29 March in St-Allyre Abbey, Clermont, France
• formerly 13 May in Thuret, France
• 6 February as one of the confessors of Auvergne

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Companion of Saint Antholian of Auvergne. Martyred by pagan Alamanni under the leadership of Chrocus during their invasion of the Auvergne region of Gaul. Saint Gregory of Tours wrote about him in his history of the time.

Died

• c.265 in Auvergne, France
• buried in the basilica of Saint Vénérand in Clermont-Ferrand, France
• some relics enshrined in the church of the St-Allyre Abbey in Clermont, France in 1311 by order of Bishop Albert Aycelin, Archdiocese of Clermont
• some relics enshrined in a reliquary bust in the priory of Thuret, France in 1311 by order of Bishop Albert Aycelin, Archdiocese of Clermont, France
• relics destroyed in 1793 as part of the anti–Christian persecutions of the French Revolution

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• books
  • Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• fonti in italiano
  • Santi e Beati