ANIANO of ORLÉANS, saint. — Successor of St. Evurtius in the episcopal see of Orléans, known chiefly through the accounts of Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. VIII, 15) and Gregory of Tours (Hist. Francorum, II, 17) for having organized the defense of his city at the time of Attila’s invasions (451). The Hieronymian Martyrology commemorates him on 17 November, the day of his deposition, and on 14 June, when his relics were translated; they were destroyed by the Huguenots in 1562.
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