Saint-Montan (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Montan is a commune in the Ardeche department in southern France. Ardeche is a department in south-central France named after the Ardeche River.The Vivarais, as the Ardeche is still called, takes its name and coat-of-arms from Viviers, which was the capital of the Gaulish tribe of Helvii, part of Gallia Narbonensis, after the destruction of their previous capital at Alba-la-Romaine. Saint Andeol, a disciple of St. Polycarp, is supposed to have evangelized the Vivarais during the reign of Emperor Septimius Severus, and was supposedly martyred in 208. His body was buried by the Blessed Tullie. Auxonius, in 430, transferred the see to Viviers as a result of the problems suffered at its previous site in Alba Augusta.