Sidoni Apolinari (jina kamili kwa Kilatini: Gaius Sollius Sidonius Apollinaris; Lyon, Galia, leo Ufaransa, 5 Novemba 430 hivi - Clermont-Ferrand, 486) alikuwa mwanasiasa, mshairi, meya wa Roma na hatimaye askofu wa Clermont-Ferrand kuanzia mwaka 469 hadi kifo chake, ingawa aliwahi kuoa na kuzaa watoto 4 . Tangu zamani anaheshimiwa na Kanisa Katoliki na Waorthodoksi kama mtakatifu. Sikukuu yake inaadhimishwa kila mwaka tarehe 21 Agosti. Watakatifu wa Agano la Kale Orodha ya Watakatifu Wakristo Orodha ya Watakatifu wa Afrika Orodha ya Watakatifu Wafransisko Apollinaris alludes to the date of his birthday in a short poem addressed to his brother-in-law Ecdicius, Carmen 20. The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisited: Sidonius Apollinaris and His Crisis of Identity Archived Septemba 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Ralph W. Mathisen, "Epistolography, Literary Circles and Family Ties in Late Roman Gaul" Transactions of the American Philological Association 111 (1981), pp. 95-109. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, 2.21. This is confirmed by the otherwise oblique allusion in Sidonius' own Epistuale 2.2.3. http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/67120 Martyrologium Romanum C.E. Stevens, Sidonius Apollinaris and his Age.