CONCERNING SAINTS TIGRIDES AND REMEDIUS, BISHOPS OF GAP IN GAUL.
CommentaryTigrides, Bishops of Gap in Gaul (Saint) Remedius, Bishops of Gap in Gaul (Saint)
By the Author I. B.
[1] Vapincum, or Vapingum, in French Gap, is an ancient city of the second province of Narbonne, in the Dauphine, of the Bishops of Gap, under the metropolis of Aix, which in the various Notices of the Provinces found in Chesne, volume 1 of the Writers of France, is called the City of the Vappincenses, Vapenses, Vappingenses, Vapecenses, or Vappenses: and it is excellently fortified, with a citadel placed upon a hill, as Ranchinus, Chesne, and Briet describe.
[2] The feast of Tigrides and Remedius, February 3 Here on February 3 are venerated Saints Tigrides and Remedius, Bishops, of whom almost all Martyrologies make mention in these words of Usuard: At Vapingum, of Tigrides and Remedius, Bishops; some add: and Confessors. Some vary in the names. For Tigrides is Tigris in Maurolyco, Tergides, Tingides, Tygrides, Teredus in certain manuscripts, and Tigides in the Roman Martyrology. For Remedius some have Romedius. Constantius Felicius: Tigrus and Romedius near the castle of Tapingum.
[3] Saussaius, who are joined everywhere else, separates them. For on February 1 he writes: In the territory of Gap, Saint Tygridis, Bishop and Confessor. elsewhere recorded under different days. This man, burning with the love of God, procured the salvation of his sheep with the greatest zeal, and having governed the Church according to the precept of the Divine law for a long time, being raised to the heavenly kingdoms, he left on earth a monument of the everlasting glory he had earned for himself. These things indeed fit every holy Bishop, except what he affirms about the long governance of the Church. Equally commonplace are the things he has on February 3 concerning Saint Remedius: At Gap, under the metropolis of Aix-en-Provence in the province of Phocaea, Saint Remedius, likewise Bishop and Confessor, who, having been appointed as successor to Saint Tygridis on account of his outstanding gifts of virtue, following in the same footsteps, directed the Church entrusted to him with great praise and abundant fruit of pastoral vigilance: and having been given by Divine providence signs of perfect sanctity, he entered the heavenly court by the same path as his predecessor.
[4] When they governed that See and what they accomplished is entirely obscure. when they sat: Claudius Robertus places them after Bishop Constantinus, who was present at the Council of Epaone; without producing any argument. Petrus de Natalibus, book 11, last chapter, number 48, writes thus: Tigris and Remedius, Bishops, suffered at the town of Vapingum on the third of the Nones of February. The ancient Roman Martyrology attributed to Saint Jerome preceded: At Vappinicum, the passion of Teridus and Remedus. The Prague manuscript also has Teredus. were they Martyrs? Some years ago a learned man sent us a manuscript catalogue of the Saints of Umbria, in which Saints Tigridius and Remedius are said to have been put to death by martyrdom, but at different times, in the castle of Papigno near Terni. But since he cites Equilinus, who expressly attributes these things to Vapingum, he does not establish credibility.
[5] Saussaius in his Supplement to the Martyrology for February 3 and May 12 writes relics of Saint Remedius that in the parish church of the town of Bort, on the borders of Limoges and Auvergne, bones of Saints Remedius, Bishop of Gap, and Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople, are preserved enclosed in a silver casket, with great devotion of the inhabitants. Concerning Saint Germanus we shall treat on May 12.