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ST PROJECTUS, BISHOP OF CLERMONT, MARTYR - 25 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 25th of January WELCOME! SAINT PROJECTUS, BISHOP OF CLERMONT, MARTYR  [St Prix.]  The episcopal see of Auvergne, which was founded by St Austremonius, in the middle of the third century, has been honoured with many holy bishops, of whom twenty-six are ranked among the saints. Of these the most eminent are St Alidius, called in French Allyre, the fourth bishop, in 380, St Sidonius Apollinaris in 482, St Gallus in 656, St Prix in 674, and St Bont in 710.  THE TITLE WAS CHANGED About the year 1160, the title of bishops of Auvergne was changed into that of Clermont, from the city of this name. St Prix was a native of Auvergne, and trained up in the service of the church, under the care of St Genesius, first archdeacon, afterwards bishop of Auvergne, and was well skilled in plain song, (which was esteemed in that age the first part of the science of a clergyman,) and in holy scriptures and church history.  H...