| ST. DESIDERIUS, BISHOP OF VIENNE, MARTYR, |
| Feast: May 23
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| When
queen Brunehaut governed the courts of her two sons, Theodebert, king of
Austrasia, and Theodoric of Burgundy, this zealous pastor boldly reproved her
for her incests and cruelties; but a sermon which he preached before her and
Theodoric on chastity, chiefly in the words of St. Paul, procured him the crown
of martyrdom; for, in his return home, he was, by their order and contrivance,
murdered by three assassins in a village now called St. Didier de Chalaraine,
near the brook of that name in the principality of Dombes, in 612. See
Fredegarius, Aimoinus, Jonas, &c., quoted by Henschenius the Bollandist; and
Acta vel Passio S. Desi. derii M., a Sisebuto Rege (Hispaniae) composite,
published by Flores, Espana Sagrada, t. 7, Append. 4, p. 337.
(Taken from Vol. V of "The Lives or the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints" by the Rev. Alban Butler, the 1864 edition published by D. & J. Sadlier, & Company) |
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