ON SS. CALIXTUS AND CYPRIAN, MARTYRS,
IN THE DIOCESE OF RIEUX IN GAUL.
CommentaryCalixtus, martyr, in the diocese of Rieux in Gaul (St.)
Cyprian, martyr, in the diocese of Rieux in Gaul (St.)
J. P.
Saussay, in the Supplement to his Gallican Martyrology, informs us that these two Champions have public veneration on this day, even though we have thus far been able to learn nothing elsewhere of the same in the sacred calendars. Here are Saussay's words: In the monastery of Lézat, in the diocese of Rieux near Toulouse, the birthday of the holy Calixtus and Cyprian, martyrs, who are venerated there today with a solemn Office. Their sacred bodies, from two very ancient chests in which they had long rested, were in the year one thousand six hundred and twenty-one, on the V of April, translated by the Prior of the place, in the presence of the monks, into a new and more ornate shrine, and honorably enclosed within the chapel of St. Anthony, together with other relics of saints, of which we have made mention today among the Passed Over. The monastery of Lézat, spoken of above, is of the Benedictine Order, on the river Lèze in the lower county of Foix, five leagues above Toulouse, in the ancient diocese of Toulouse, now that of Rieux (commonly Rieux); from the Sainte-Marthes, volume 4 of Gallia Christiana, page 564.