Acta Sanctorum

Afflinus

8 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
St. Afflinus, Bishop and Confessor, is recorded on January 8 in the Cologne Martyrology and several other calendars. Nothing further has been discovered about him.

ON ST. AFFLINUS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR.

Commentary

Afflinus, Bishop and Confessor, is recorded on this day in the Cologne Martyrology printed in the year of Christ 1480, in the Additions of the Cologne Carthusians to Usuard, published in the years of Christ 1515 and 1516, and likewise in the first edition of Molanus's Martyrology, in the German Martyrology, and in Ferrarius, who calls him Afflinius. We have discovered nothing further about him.