Apr 20 - Saint Marcellinus - Bishop of Embrun - 374
From the Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints.
Marcellinus of Ambrun
Marcelino….
Marcellí d’Ambrun
Memorial
20 April
Profile Priest. Missionary to the Dauphiné area of France and Switzerland in the early 4th century. First Bishop of Embrun, France, consecrated by Saint Eusebius of Vercelli. When the Arian heresy arrived in his area, Marcellinus was forced to flee into the mountains and care for his diocese from exile. Born North Africa Died c.374 of natural causes relics transferred to Digne-les-Bains, France in the 10th century relics destroyed in the anti-Christian excesses of the French Revolution Canonized Pre-Congregation