Saint Austremonius
![[Saint Austremonius]](https://i0.wp.com/catholicsaints.info/wp-content/gallery/saint-austremonius/saint-austremonius.jpg?resize=145%2C350 "jpg photograph of a statue of Saint Austremonius, apostle and bishop of Auvergne. Church Saint-Austremonius of Issoire, Auvergne, France; photographed by Jastrow in 2006; swiped off the Wikipedia web site")
Also known as
- Apostle of Auvergne
- Austromoine
- Stramonius
- Stremonius
Profile
May have been the first bishop of Clermont, France. Contemporary of the three bishops of Aquitaine who attended the Council of Arles in 314.
Born
- early 4th century of natural causes
- interred at at Issoire, France
- re-interred at Volvic
- relics taken to Mauzac Abbey in 761
- some relics taken to Saint-Yvoine, France in the mid-9th-century
- many relics returned to Issoire c.900
- Pre-Congregation
- popular devotion began in the mid-6th-century after a deacon named Cantius received a vision of angels around the neglected tomb of Astremonius
- Clermont, France, archdiocese of
MLA Citation
- “Saint Austremonius“. CatholicSaints.Info. 5 February 2019. Web. 23 September 2020. <>