Romanus of Condat (also known in English asSaint Roman; French:Romain de Condat orRomain du Jura) (c. 390 –c. 463) is a saint of the fifth century. At the age of thirty five, he decided to live as ahermit in the area ofCondat. His younger brotherLupicinus followed him there. They became leaders of a community of monks that includedEugendus.

Romanus and Lupicinus founded several monasteries. These includedCondat Abbey, which was the nucleus of the later town ofSaint-Claude, Jura), Lauconne (laterSaint-Lupicin, as Lupicinus was buried there), La Balme (Beaume) (laterSaint-Romain-de-Roche), where Romanus was buried, andRomainmôtier (Romanum monasterium), now in thecanton of Vaud inSwitzerland.

Romanus wasordained a priest byHilary of Arles in 444.

Two lives of him are in existence: one byGregory of Tours in theLiber vitae patrum (Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script. Merov., I, 663), and an anonymousVita Sanctorum Romani, Lupicini, Eugendi [ibid., III, 131 sqq.; cf. Benoît, "Histoire de St-Claude", I (Paris, 1890); Besson, "Recherches sur les origines des évêchés de Genève, Lausanne, et Sion" (Fribourg, 1906), 210 sqq.].

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