ON ST. EGEMONIUS, OR IGONOMUS, BISHOP OF AUTUN.
CommentaryEgemonius, Bishop of Autun in Gaul (St.)
The seventh Bishop of the Aedui, or of Autun, is mentioned by Claudius Robertus as Igonomus, or Igomonus, or Aegemonius, or Egemonius. He is listed among the catalogue of saints on January 8 by Molanus in his Additions to Usuard, the Paris edition of Bellinus from 1521, Rabanus, Maurolycus, Galesinius, and the Cologne Martyrology — in which he is incorrectly called Egenius, as he is called Eugenianus in the Lubeck edition of Usuard from 1475. But the Carthusians of Cologne in the Additions to Usuard have: "Egmonius, otherwise known as Egenio, Bishop and Confessor of Autun, otherwise recorded as a Martyr." Ferrarius calls him Egmo. Certain manuscripts call him Egemone and Eugemone. The very ancient manuscript Martyrology of St. Jerome also mentions St. Egemonius: Jerome: "At Autun, the burial of Egemonius the Bishop." St. Gregory of Tours also mentions him in On the Glory of Confessors, chapters 75 and 76. And Andreas Saussaius in the Gallican Martyrology: "At Autun of the Aedui, the burial of St. Egemonius, Bishop and Confessor, who, flourishing greatly in religion and learning, succeeded St. Cassian in this chair and presided over the flock entrusted to him with every episcopal virtue and with examples of pastoral duty. At length, illustrious for his holiness observed in many things, he departed to heaven that he might enjoy the divine vision for which he had burned most ardently." We shall treat of St. Cassian, his predecessor, on August 5.