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| | Patron Saints Index: Saint Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus |
 | | A wanderer up to then, when Venantius became a bishop he became a model of temperance and stability, and was known for his love of food and friends and joy. |
 | | He wrote hymns, essays, funeral elegies, homilies, and metrical lives of the saints including Saint Martin of Tours (which runs to 2,243 hexameter lines), Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Saint Germanus of Paris, Saint Albinus of Angers, Saint Paternus of Avranches, Saint Marcellus of Paris, and Saint Radegund. |
 | | He is considered the last of the Gallic Latin poets, and one of the first Christian poets to write works devoted to Mary. |
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