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Valerian of Abbenza (d. 457) is a martyr of the Vandal persecution in Africa. Our only source for him is Victor of Vita's sometimes tendentious _Historia persecutionis Africanae provinciae_. An octogenarian, Valerian was expelled from the city of which he was bishop. His decree of banishment included a provision forbidding others to shelter him and he spent the brief remainder of his life on public roads. Thus far Victor of Vita. Valerian entered the historical martyrologies in the earlier ninth-century martyrology of Florus of Lyon. Today (15. December) is his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
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John Dillon
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