ST FIRMIN, BISHOP OF AMIENS, MARTYR

ST FIRMIN, BISHOP OF AMIENS, MARTYR - 25 SEPTEMBER

SAINT FIRMIN, BISHOP OF AMIENS, MARTYR

Saint Firmin is often pictured holding his severed head.

[Saint Firmin I.] If we may rely on his acts, he was a native of Pampelone, in Navarre [born c. 272], initiated in the Christian faith by Honestus, a disciple of Saint Saturninus of Toulouse, and consecrated bishop by Saint Honoratus, successor to Saint Saturninus, in order to preach the gospel in the remoter parts of Gaul.

He preached the faith in the countries of Agen, Anjou, and Beauvais, and, being arrived at Amiens, there chose his residence, having founded there a numerous church of faithful disciples.

He received the crown of martyrdom in that city [at the age of 31, by beheading], whether under the prefect, Rictius Varus, as Usuard says, or in some other persecution from Decius, in 250, to Diocletian, in 303, is uncertain.

Faustinian buried him in his field called Abladana, where Firmin II (who is honoured on September 1) built the first church under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin.

Saint Salvius, in the beginning of the seventh century, translated his relics into the cathedral. Saint Godefrid made another translation of them about the year 1107, and Bishop Theobald put them into a gold shrine about the year 1200.

Source: Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Firmin confessed the faith, may experience his goodness as he intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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