Oliver of Ancona
Italian saint
Intro | Italian saint | |
Places | Italy | |
is | Monk | |
Work field | Religion | |
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Religion: | Catholic church | |
Death | 1050 |
Saint Oliver of Ancona - also known as Oliver of Portonuovo, Oliverius or Liberius - († ca. 1050), is a saint of the catholic and orthodox Christian churches. His day is 3 February.
He was a Benedictine monk from Santa Maria di Portonuovo, a community at the foot of Monte Conero, south of Ancona on the Italian Adriatic coast.
It is thought that he came from Armenia, or that he originally was a Camaldolese monk from Dalmatia. Else, basically nothing is known about St Oliver of Ancona.
Another saint with the name Oliver is Oliver Plunkett, an Irish monk of the 17th century.