SAINT VINCENT OF TROYES

St. Vincent of Troyes

Feast day: February 4
Died: 546
 Bishop of Troyes from about 536 to 546

Bishop of Trayes, France, from about 536. He succeeded St. Aemilian as bishop and worked to evangelize the entire area.

SAINT AVENTINUS

St. Aventinus of Chartres

Feast day: February 4
Died: 520


Bishop and brother of St. Solemnis. Aventinus succeeded Solemnis as bishop of Chaitres, France, where he was revered.

 Aventinus succeeded his brother Saint Solemnis as bishop of Chartres, France

SAINT ALDATE

Saint Aldate

Feast day: February 4
Died 577

Bishop and leader of Gloucester, England. Aldate's life is not detailed historically. He is reported to have served as bishop of the region and to have roused the countryside to resist pagan invasion forces.


Saint Aldate was a bishop of Gloucester, venerated as a saint with the feast day of February 4. Aldate's life is not detailed historically, but he was probably a Briton killed by the Anglo-Saxons at Deorham. He is reported to have roused the countryside to resist pagan invasion forces. He is mentioned in the Sarum and other martyrologies; his feast occurs in a Gloucester calendar (14th-century addition);
churches were dedicated to him at Gloucester and Oxford, as well as a famous Oxford street: St Aldate's, Oxford and a minor street in Gloucester. But nothing seems to be known of him: it was even suggested (unconvincingly) that his name was a corruption of 'old gate'.