Arcadius of Bourges

Saint Arcadius of Bourges
Died 549
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine relics are at Saint Ursin[1]
Feast August 1

Saint Arcadius (died 549 AD) was a bishop of Bourges. He took part in the Third Council of Orléans (538). He was bishop for about 15 years.[2] His episcopate is sometimes said to have lasted from 531 to 541.[3]

Notes

  1. St. Arcadius - Catholic Online
  2. Omer Englebert, The Lives of the Saints (Barnes & Noble, 1994), 296.
  3. G.P. Brogiolo, Nancy Gauthier, Neil Christie, Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (BRILL, 2000), 196
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