ABRAMO, Abbot of CLERMONT, Saint. — Born in a country on the Euphrates and died in 485. Having undertaken a journey to visit the solitaries of Egypt, he was arrested by the Persian persecutors, beaten and imprisoned. After securing his release five years later, he visited Egypt and the West, settling in Auvergne, in the city later called Clermont, where in 473 he built a monastery next to the basilica of St. Ciriaco or Quirico, commonly known as Cyr. His feast is observed on the 16th, and in the Roman Martyrology on June 15. In the early Middle Ages his name was invoked in the blessing of the eyes.
BIBL.: Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistolae VII (PL 58, cols. 508-99); St. Gregory of Tours, Vitae Patrum, 3; Acta SS. Unni, II. Antwerp 1698, pp. 1058-59; C. Baronius, Annales, ad annum 480, 12-14.