Andeolus

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name=Saint Andeolus
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death_date=208
feast_day=May 1 or May 4(Gregorian calendar)
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Smyrna
death_place=Bergoiata
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Andeolus or Andéol was born in Smyrna in the 2nd century. A subdeacon, he was sent by Polycarp to evangelize southern Gaul. He went to the Vivarais. Septimius Severus, passing through that region, had him put to death; his head was stabbed with a gladius on May 1, 208, at Bergoiata, a Gallic settlement on a rocky peak over the Rhône River which would be later known as Bourg-Saint-Andéol. The body, thrown into the Rhone, was later found and placed in a sarcophagus by a rich Roman woman, Anycia or Amycia Eucheria Tullia (Blessed Tullie), daughter of senator Eucherius Valerianus (Eucherius of Lyon). His sarcophagus was rediscovered in 1865 during excavations in the St. Polycarp chapel of the eleventh century church of in Bourg-Saint-Andéol (Ardèche).

External links

*ws|"" in the 1913 "Catholic Encyclopedia"
* [http://bourgsaintandeol.free.fr/sarcophage%20st%20andeol.htm A photo of his sarcophagus]