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Eugenianus of Autun

8 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
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St. Eugenianus, Martyr at Autun in Gaul, is celebrated on January 8 in the Roman Martyrology and numerous other calendars. He may have been a bishop, though his name does not appear with certainty in the episcopal catalogue. His precise era is unknown.

ON ST. EUGENIANUS, MARTYR, AT AUTUN IN GAUL.

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Eugenianus, Martyr at Autun in Gaul (St.)

St. Eugenianus is listed today in the Roman Martyrology, by Usuard, Bellinus, Maurolycus, the German Martyrology, the manuscript Florarium, and Galesinius, who attests in his Annotations that he underwent martyrdom at Autun in Gaul, as does Petrus de Nataliis, Book 11, last chapter, no. 29 — though the latter records his feast day on the fifth day before the Ides of January January 9. An ancient manuscript of the Monastery of St. Martin at Trier: "The sixth day before the Ides. At Autun, Eugenius, Bishop and Martyr." The manuscript of St. Mary at Utrecht has the same. I find no Eugenianus or Eugenius in the catalogue of bishops, unless perhaps he held office between Martyrius and St. Reticius, for Claudius Robertius suspects that the names of some bishops are missing. Wandelbert:

"On the sixth before the Ides, vows are offered to Eugenianus." We had doubted whether he might perhaps be the same as Egemonius, of whom we shall treat next. But the most learned Andreas Saussaius celebrates them as different persons, and indeed honors Eugenianus with this eulogy: "At Autun of the Aedui, St. Eugenianus the Martyr, crowned in his vigorous contest as a witness to the faith."

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