Feast 27 August | Name Guarinus Sitten Role Saint | |
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Patronage Animals, protection from animal diseases Died August 27, 1150, Aups, France | ||
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church | ||
Saint Guarinus of Sitten (French: Guérin) was Bishop of Sion.
Guarinus was born in Pont-à-Mousson, France, around 1065, into a noble family. In about 1085 he became a monk at the Benedictine monastery of Molesme Abbey. In 1094, together with a group of brothers, he founded a daughter house of Molesme, Aulps Abbey in Savoy. France.
In 1138 Guarinus was appointed Bishop of Sion and later became revered as a saint. He died at Aulps Abbey in 1150.
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