ST APER, BISHOP OF TROYES

ST APER, BISHOP OF TROYES - 15 SEPTEMBER

SAINT APER, OR EVRE, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR

He was born at Troyes in Champagne, as was his sister, the holy virgin Apronia, honoured at Troyes and Toul on July 15.

Upon the death of Saint Auspicius, sixth bishop of Troyes, in Champagne, about the year 486, he was chosen to fill that chair, for which he was prepared by a life devoted to the divine service from his infancy.

Baronius, F. Peter Chifflet, and F. Longueval think him the same with Aper, who was married, had been a judge, and, after having led for some years a worldly life, was converted to God, and served him with great fervour, as we learn from three letters of St Paulinus to him.

THREE LETTERS OF ST PAULINUS GIVE US SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

But the authors of the new Gallia Christiana, and Calmet, in his history of Lorraine, show, that this Aper must have been above one hundred years old before he could have been bishop, which is incredible.

Nor does it appear that the bishop had ever been married; on the contrary, he had served God in continency from his youth. He might, however, be the same to whom Sidonius Apollianaris wrote with respect.

ZEAL, AUSTERITY, DEVOTION

In the history of his life, his zeal, austerity, devotion, and miracles are set forth. He governed that diocese seven years, and was buried in the new church which he had begun to build in the suburbs, and which was finished by his successor.

A NEW MONASTERY WAS BUILT TO THE CHURCH

This church was dedicated under the title of St Martin, but very soon after bore the name of St Aper, whose relics and miracles rendered it famous. A monastery was soon after built to this church; and, in the decline of the sixth century, the abbot Apollinaris governed both this church and that of Agaunum.

MIRACLES ASSOCIATED WITH HIS RELICS

St Leo IX, bishop of Toul, afterwards pope, carried certain relics of St Mansuetus (first bishop of Toul in the reign of Constantine the Great) and of St Aper with him, and by them cured many of his attendants of the pestilence on the road, as is related by Wibert, archdeacon of that holy pope, in his life. The chief parts of the relics of St Aper are to this day kept with veneration in his church.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

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