Background
St. Florian was born around 250 AD in the ancient Roman city of Aelium Cetium, present-day Sankt Pölten, Austria.
St. Florian was born around 250 AD in the ancient Roman city of Aelium Cetium, present-day Sankt Pölten, Austria.
According to eighth-century legendary tradition, supported by an old entry in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, he was drowned in the Enns at Lauriacum in Noricum (Enns in Austria) during the persecution of Diocletian. St. Florian is popularly invoked, especially in Austria and Bavaria, against fire and flood.