death_date death_place feast_day venerated_in birth_date article_title name
603 auxerre 25 september roman catholic church 573 aunarius
 saint aunarius -lrb- aunacharius -rrb-
aunarius

saint aunarius -lrb- aunacharius -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 573 -- 603 -rrb- was bishop of auxerre during the 6th century .
being of noble birth , he was brought up in the royal court of guntram , but wanted to become a priest , and was ordained by saint syagrius of autun , and eventually was made bishop of auxerre .
his administration is noted for certain important disciplinary measures that throw light on the religious and moral life of the merovingian times .
he caused solemn litanies to be said daily in the chief centers of population , by rotation , and on the first day of each month in the larger towns and monasteries .
he enforced a regular daily attendance at the divine office on the part both of regular and secular clergy .
he held -lrb- 681 or 585 -rrb- an important synod of four bishops , seven abbots , thirty-five priests , and four deacons for the restoration of ecclesiastical discipline and the suppression of popular pagan superstitions , and caused the lives of his predecessors amator and germanus to be written .
