Venantius Fortunatus

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (April 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Венанций Фортунат]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Венанций Фортунат}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Bavarian. (April 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Bavarian Wikipedia article at [[:bar:Venantius Fortunatus]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|bar|Venantius Fortunatus}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Saint Venantius Fortunatus
Venantius Fortunatus Reading His Poems to Radegonda VI by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1862).
Bishop of Poitiers, Church Father
Born	c. 530 AD Venetia, Kingdom of the Ostrogoths
Died	c. 600 or 609 AD Pictavium, Kingdom of the Franks
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast	14 December

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. 530 – c. 600/609 AD; French: Venance Fortunat), known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus (/vəˈnænʃəs ˌfɔːrtjəˈneɪtəs/, Latin: [weːˈnantɪ.ʊs fɔrtuːˈnaːtʊs]), was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.^[1]