ON ST. TIGRIDIUS, PRIEST, AT CLERMONT IN GAUL.
AROUND THE YEAR 390.
Commentary
Tigridius, Priest, at Clermont in Gaul (St.)
I. B.
[1] Among the numerous bands of Saints by which the city of the Arverni in Gaul has been ennobled, Tigridius is also counted. As is said in book 1 on the Saints, Churches, and Monasteries of Clermont, published by Savaron, chapter 34, he rests in the church of St. Andrew. His commemoration is made on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of March, which the same Savaron notes at that chapter from manuscript Breviaries; and he adds that in the Martyrology of Clermont the following is read of him: "On the same day, in the suburb of the city of the Arverni, the deposition of St. Tigridius, Confessor."
[2] Concerning his deeds, the same Savaron recites only the following from his manuscript and the manuscript Ritual of St. Illidius: "A citizen of the city of the Arverni, a Priest by order, an Archdeacon of St. Illidius, Bishop of Clermont, by office, he grew old entirely in the duties of piety, and full of days, in the seventieth year of his age, on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of March, having died to the world, he was born to Christ." And further: "His tomb is to the left of the entrance of the choir of St. Andrew's." Saussaius in the Gallican Martyrology calls him a Bishop and Co-bishop of St. Illidius. But Savaron in his Origins of Clermont, page 39, says he was the brother of St. Illidius; and he writes on page 122 that St. Illidius (who is called Allyre in French) died as a very old man in the year 385. In his Life, which is found in Surius from St. Gregory of Tours on the seventh of July, no mention is made of St. Tigridius.