Saint Euphrone

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Euphrône (Euphronius) of Autun († after 472) was a bishop of Autun[1] between 450–490AD.

He became bishop in 451 at the latest. We know from Gregory of Tours[2] he had built a church dedicated to Saint Symphorien in Autun. The letters of Sidonius Apollinaris[3] that tell us around the year 470, he accompanied to Chalon-sur-Saone, the bishop of Lyon and other prelates to dedicate a new bishop. Also in 472, Sidonius wrote to him to attend the consecration of the new bishop of Bourges.

Euphronius, composed in 453 a letter now lost, to the Bishop of Angers, Talasius. It is reproduced in the Concilia Antiquae Galliae.[4]

Euphrône was buried in the cemetery of the Abbey of Saint-Symphorien Autun; his name is in the Roman martyrology, for August 3.

References

  1. ↑ I.-F. Grégoire et F.-L. Collombet, Œuvres de C. Sollius Apollinaris Sidonius, vol. II, Lyon, Impr.-libr. Rusand, 1836
  2. ↑ Histoire des Francs, II, 15
  3. ↑ Lettres, vol. IV, n°25 ; vol. VII, n°8 ; vol. IX, n°2.
  4. ↑ Sirmond P. (1629), Christian Gaul. Literary History of France, Volume II, p. 465.
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