Albin of Angers

Bishop Albin heals a blind monk ( Vita Sancti Albini , around 1100)

Albin von Angers (also Albinus von Angers or French Aubin d'Angers ; * around 469 in Vannes ; † March 1, 550 ) was Bishop of Angers from 529 until his death . He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church ; his feast day is March 1st.

Vita

Albinus was an Augustinian canon near Angers. In 504 he became abbot in the monastery Tincillacense in western France and around 529 bishop of Angers. Some miracles are attributed to him. In 538, 541 and 549 he took part in the Synods of Orléans .

He died in his eightieth year after serving twenty-six years and six months in the episcopate.

Adoration

Already Gregory of Tours knew a worship of Albin in the basilica in Angers , which was consecrated after his death (556) this a few years. In the Middle Ages, the veneration of Albin spread across France, England and Germany to Austria and Poland. Venantius Fortunatus wrote his life story around the year 600.

Representations

Apart from a few miniature paintings , no medieval depictions of the saint are known. Since the 18th century, however , figures of saints and stained glass have become more numerous and mostly show him in the bishop's robe.

Web links

Commons : Albin von Angers - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Albinus von Angers in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
Venantius Fortunatus: Vita Sancti Albini Andegavensis Episcopi (= Patrologia Latina 88).

Remarks

↑ This was possibly today's Guérande or today's Théhillac , both located near Nantes .

Individual evidence

↑ Suffren Jean: Christian devotional year, divided into two books … Wilhelm Friessem, 1658, p. 498 ( full text in the Google book search, accessed on September 27, 2015).
^ Gregor von Tours : Glory of the Confessors (= Latin series, Translated texts for historians . Volume 4 ). Liverpool 2004, ISBN 978-0-85323-226-1 , pp. 72 (English, full text in the Google book search [accessed on September 27, 2015] Latin: Liber in gloria confessorum . Translated by Raymond Van Dam).

personal data
SURNAME	Albin of Angers
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Albinus of Angers; Aubin d'Angers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Catholic Bishop of Angers and saint of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	at 469
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vannes
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 550

[1] This was possibly today's Guérande or today's Théhillac , both located near Nantes .

[2] Suffren Jean: Christian devotional year, divided into two books … Wilhelm Friessem, 1658, p. 498 ( full text in the Google book search, accessed on September 27, 2015).

[3] Gregor von Tours : Glory of the Confessors (= Latin series, Translated texts for historians . Volume 4 ). Liverpool 2004, ISBN 978-0-85323-226-1 , pp. 72 (English, full text in the Google book search [accessed on September 27, 2015] Latin: Liber in gloria confessorum . Translated by Raymond Van Dam).