Biography
Agricola of Avignon
About Agricola of Avignon
Agricola is remembered as a bishop of Avignon who cared for poor and sick people. The received account links his early formation to the monastery of Lérins.
It attributes church and monastic building in Avignon to him. The official source warns that the detailed life comes from a document no earlier than the fifteenth century.
His cult developed much later, and he came to be considered Avignon’s patron in 1647.
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