**CAPRASIUS, St.** – Hermit of Lérins, teacher and spiritual father of St. Honoratus, founder of the famous monastery of the same name. Later sources make him abbot of Lérins after the appointment of Honoratus to the see of Arles (426), but this does not seem consistent with earlier sources. He died around 430. Contemporaries such as Hilary of Arles (PL 50, 1255), Eucherius of Lyon (ibid., 711), and Sidonius Apollinaris (PL 58, 721) speak of his holiness. His life was written only in the 7th–8th century. Feast day: June 19.
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BIBL.:** Acta SS. Junii, I, Antwerp 1605, pp. 77–79; pp. Maulini, Histoire littéraire de la France, IV, Paris 1738, pp. 193–194; Martyr. Romanum, p. 219.