Saint Latuinus is venerated as a saint

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 by the Roman Catholic Church

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. He is considered to have been the first bishop of Sées, during the 5th century, from 400 to 440 AD. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia

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, "Louis Duchesne

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 believed that for the period anterior to 900 no reliance can be placed on the episcopal catalogue of Séez, which we know by certain compilations of the sixth century."

A later tradition makes him a 1st century bishop and missionary sent to Sées

Sées

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 by Pope Clement I

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Starting in the 3rd and 4th century, tradition has identified him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in Philippians as a fellow laborer in Christ.While in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor...

. This had the intent of making the diocese of Sées have an older tradition than it actually had. According to another Christian

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 tradition, he was sent to the region by Boniface I. Another local tradition states that Latuinus built an oratory

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 on the site of the current Chapelle Saint-Latuin, in the diocese of Sées, towards the end of the 4th century.

Veneration

According to one source, the devotion to Latuinus remains strong in the diocese of Sées, as evidenced by an annual pilgrimage

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 to the Chapelle.

External links

Diocèse de Séez

• Diocèse de Séez at the Catholic Encyclopedia
  Catholic Encyclopedia
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  LA CHAPELLE St-LATUIN (includes image of the saint)