ON SAINT ROMANUS, BISHOP OF METZ IN GAUL.
ABOUT THE YEAR 489.
CommentaryRomanus, Bishop of Metz, in Gaul (Saint)
G. H.
Meurisse, Suffragan Bishop of the Church of Metz, in his History of the Bishops of Metz, p. 66, has these few words concerning Saint Romanus: "Gosselinus the Bishop having died in the year 460, Time of his seat. Romanus succeeded him in the same year and fulfilled the office of a best and most faithful Shepherd for the space of thirty years, dying in the year 489, on April 13: on which day he is inscribed in the Martyrology of the Cathedral Church in these words: 'At Metz, the deposition of Saint Romanus Bishop and Confessor.'" Name in the calendars. Saussay in the Gallican Martyrology adorns him with this elogium: "At Metz, of Saint Romanus, Bishop of that city and Confessor: who after Attila's deadly incursion and the pitiable devastation of that city, took up the pastoral government deserted by the death of Gosselinus; and offering paternal consolations to the people, restored the state of the Church and city with outstanding care and effort. At last, both states not moderately restored, full of days and merits, he was carried up to the pleasantness of the eternal fatherland: and his name inscribed thenceforth among the holy Pontiffs of this Church, he left to be commemorated by posterity with perennial veneration."