ON ST. FERGEOLUS, MARTYR, BISHOP OF GRENOBLE.
Seventh Century.
CommentaryFergeolus, Bishop of Grenoble, Martyr (St.)
[1] St. Fergeolus is listed by John Chenu as the thirteenth Bishop of the Church of Grenoble, "whom we believe to be a Martyr," he says. Claude Robert agrees. But Saussay: "At Grenoble, the feast of St. Fergeolus, Bishop and Martyr, who, sitting in that Chair after Clarus, while he was fulfilling the duties of a good shepherd and defending justice and ecclesiastical liberty with a truly Pontifical spirit, was thrust from his See by the tyrant Ebroin, together with very many other most holy Bishops St. Fergeolus suffered under Ebroin. who, out of zeal for God and love of their neighbor, resisted his wicked schemes; he was first driven into exile, and then also slain by a cruel death: and so, the laurel of a martyrdom undertaken for justice having been joined to the Pontifical plate, he flew away to eternal triumphs."