ON ST. CARTERIUS, PRIEST, AMONG THE BITURIGES IN GAUL.
CommentaryCarterius, Priest in Gaul (St.)
I. B.
[1] Andrew Chesne, in his Antiquities of Gaul, treating of the province of Berry in chapter 3, lists among the towns subject to the tribunal of Issoudun "St. Chartier," as does Paul Merula in his Cosmography, part 2, book 3, chapter 25. It takes its name from St. Carterius, of whom Philip Labbe, one of our own, makes mention in his French-Gallic Hagiology under February 1: "At Bourges, in the village of Lucaniacum, St. Carterius, Priest and Confessor." We have discovered nothing further about him. We have already given another St. Carterius, a Priest crowned with a noble martyrdom at Caesarea of Cappadocia, on January 8. We shall give another on November 11, who at Sebaste under Licinius, [Carterius, Priest and Confessor, distinct from the one of January 8 and November 2,] with many others, won the palm of martyrdom. But this man was a soldier, both the others were Martyrs; lest anyone suppose that the relics of either of them, perhaps brought into Gaul from Asia, obtained veneration there and gave the place its name.