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ST ELEUTHERIUS, BISHOP OF TOURNAI, MARTYR - 20 FEBRUARY

 

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SAINT ELEUTHERIUS, BISHOP OF TOURNAI, MARTYR 

(A.D. 532.) Saint Eleutherius was born at Tournai, of Christian parents, whose family had been converted to Christ by St Piat, one hundred and fifty years before. The faith had declined at Tournai ever since St Piat’s martyrdom, by reason of its commerce with the heathen islands of Taxandria, now Zeland, and by means of the heathen French kings, who resided some time at Tournai.

HE CONVERTED THE GREATER PART OF THE FRANKS IN THAT COUNTRY TO FAITH

Eleutherius was chosen bishop of that city, in 486; ten years after which King Clovis was baptised at Rheims. Eleutherius converted the greater part of the Franks in that country to the faith, and opposed most zealously certain heretics who denied the mystery of the Incarnation, by whom he was wounded on the head with a sword, and died of the wound five weeks after, on July 1, in 532. 

HIS RELICS

The most ancient monuments, relating to this saint, seem to have perished in a great fire which consumed his church, and many other buildings, at Tournai, in 1092, with his relics. 

HIS VITA

St Eleutherius' Vita: The author wrote before the invasion of the Normans, and the translation of the saint’s relics: but long after the saint’s death, and by making him be born in the reign of Diocletian, yet contemporary with St Medard, destroys his own credit. Some years after, another author much enlarged this life, and inserted a history of the translation of the relics of this saint made in 897. A third writer added a relation of later miracles, and of the translation of these relics into the city of Tournai, in 1164. All these authors deserve little notice, except in relating facts of their own time.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 🎨 St Eleutherius of Tournai Baptising Converts, Flemish, early 16th century)

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