ON ST. CELSUS, CONFESSOR.
Among the Limousins in Gaul.
CommentaryCelsus, Confessor, among the Limousins in Gaul (S.)
J. B. S.
I here report a Saint known to me by his name alone and the place of his cult, of whose fatherland, profession, age, or deeds no trace anywhere occurs. Nor indeed do the Registers of Limoges report anything, in which Ferrarius testifies in his General Catalogue that nothing else is read, except that his head is kept in the church of St. Stephen and shown to the people with the highest veneration. Whether Saussay drew his own material thence, or from elsewhere, I have no means of settling; certainly his announcement of today in the Supplement to the Gallican Martyrology comprises nothing more
on page 1156, where he speaks thus: Among the Limousins, of St. Celsus, confessor, whose head, made illustrious by the Lord with very many signs, is kept in the Cathedral church of St. Stephen, and is shown today to the people with the highest veneration. A third witness of the cult is Castellan in his Universal Martyrology, calling the Saint in French Soux. And these at last are the things which could here be recorded concerning St. Celsus.