Lupus of Troyes

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Saint

Lupus of Troyes
Roman Catholic Church
FeastJuly 29
Attributesdepicted with a diamond falling from heaven as he celebrates Mass; shown holding a chalice with a diamond in it or at the altar, giving a diamond to a king[2]

Lupus (

bishop of Troyes. Around 426, the bishops in Britain requested assistance from the bishops of Gaul in dealing with Pelagianism. Germanus of Auxerre
and Lupus were sent.

Life

Born at Toul, he was the son of a wealthy nobleman, Epirocus of Toul. He has been called the brother of Vincent of Lérins.[3] Having lost his parents when he was an infant, Lupus was brought up by his uncle Alistocus. He was brother-in-law to Hilary of Arles, as he had married one of Hilary's sisters, Pimeniola. He held a number of estates in Maxima Sequanorum, and worked as a lawyer. After six years of marriage, he and his wife parted by mutual agreement.

Lupus sold his estate and gave the money to the poor. He entered

Macon where he came to the attention of Germanus of Auxerre
, who appointed him bishop of Troyes. He was reluctant to assume this office and at first declined, but eventually relented.

In the autumn of 429, the Council of Arles, at the request of the bishops in Britain, sent Lupus and

Welsh Literature such as the Bonedd y Saint. He is venerated at Llanblethian in the Vale of Glamorgan.[4]
They returned to Gaul just after Easter in the spring of 430. Lupus was bishop for fifty-two years and died at Troyes in 479.

Sidonius Apollinaris called him "The father of fathers and bishop of bishops, the chief of the Gallican prelates, the rule of manners, the pillar of truth, the friend of God, and the intercessor to him for men."[5] He was a friend of Bishop Euphronius of Autun.[6]

Lupus and Attila

Lupus was credited with saving

hagiographical rather than historical.[8]
However, the historical kernel it might contain is that Troyes was spared being sacked by Attila's army and that its inhabitants considered this a miraculous deliverance.

References

  1. ^ Holmes, T. Scott. The Origin and Development of the Christian Church in Gaul During the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era, Mac Millan, 1911, p. 480
  2. ^ a b "Saint of the Day, July 29". Archived from the original on 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
  3. ^ Goyau, Georges. "Fréjus." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 9 February 2019
  4. ^ Hughes, John (1819). Horae Britannicae: Or, Studies in Ancient British History Containing Various Disquisitions on the National and Religious Antiquities of Great Britain. Volume 2. The Horæ Britannicæ translation of Archau y Saint. Vol. II. London. p. 161.
  5. ^ Butler, Alban. "St. Lupus, Bishop of Troyes, Confessor", The Lives of the Saints, vol. vii, 1866
  6. ISBN 9780567664150
  7. ^ a b St. Lupus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
  8. ^ Attwater, Donald. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints,(1945) Reprint: 1981, p. 223.

External links

  • Lupus of Troyes
  • Index of Saints website with thousands of saints, and sources. (an archived, earlier version of "Saint of the Day" at www.saintpatrickdc.org)
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