| Honorific Prefix: | Saint |
| Turibius of Astorga | |
| Death Date: | 460 AD |
| Feast Day: | April 16 |
| Titles: | Bishop |
| Attributes: | mitre |
| Major Shrine: | Cathedral of Astorga |
Saint Turibius of Astorga (Spanish; Castilian: Santo Toribio de Astorga; fl. 446, died 460) was an archdeacon of Tui and an early Bishop of Astorga. Turibius was a zealous maintainer of ecclesiastical discipline, and defender of the Nicene Christianity against the Galician heresy of Priscillianism,[1] for which he received a supportive letter from Leo the Great, which still survives.[2]
Turibius held a local synod in 446. After his death at Astorga in 460, he was revered as a saint. According to tradition, his relics, along with a piece of the lignum crucis he had brought from Jerusalem, were transferred to the Monastery of Liébana around the middle of the eighth century.[3] His feast day is April 16 in the Roman Catholic Church. He is usually portrayed with a mitre and is not to be confused with Turibius of Liébana.