Acta Sanctorum

Leuogisilus

13 January · commentary
Latin source: Heiligenlexikon
St. Leogisilus (also called Longisus or Longinus), an abbot venerated at the monastery of Vergy in Burgundy, is of uncertain date and origin. His relics may have been among those translated to Vergy along with those of St. Viventius. No Acts survive.

ON ST. LEOGISILUS, ABBOT, AT VERGIACUM IN BURGUNDY.

Commentary

Leogisolus, Abbot, at Vergiacum in Gaul (Saint).

[1] We have recorded above, on this same day, the primary patron of Vergiacum, St. Viventius the Priest, where we also treated of the site of the place, the construction of the monastery, and the noble family of the Vergiacum lords. We are surprised that the name of St. Leogisilus the Abbot is not even mentioned by the authors cited there, It is uncertain where and when he lived. let alone that his Acts should be narrated — not even by Du Chesne in that remarkable and painstaking work on the Vergiacum family — so that one may not unreasonably doubt whether he was an abbot there or elsewhere. Certainly, together with the relics of St. Viventius, many other bodies of saints are also narrated to have been transported to Vergiacum in his Life; since the names of these are reported by no one, Leogisilus was perhaps among them, as abbot of some other monastery. For if he lived afterwards, it is strange that no mention of him is made anywhere.

[2] Otherwise, Ferrarius records his feast day in his general catalogue of Saints on January 13 in these words: His name in the sacred Calendars. "In the territory of Autun, St. Leogisilus, Abbot of Vergiacum." He notes that his memorial exists in the Calendar of the Church of Autun and in the records of the monastery of Vergiacum. Saussay writes in the supplement to his Gallic Martyrology: "In the territory of Autun, St. Leogisilus, Abbot, whose holy and illustrious remembrance is observed today in the monastery of Vergiacum of the same diocese." Peter de Natalibus, book 11, chapter 130: "Longisius, Confessor, whose feast is celebrated on the Ides of January." He is also celebrated in the ancient Martyrologies of Schwollen and Cologne, in the manuscript Florarium, in the Usuard edition published at Lubeck in the year 1475, in the manuscripts of the Church of Brussels, of St. Paul in Utrecht, and in many others, with these words: "On the same day, St. Longisus, Confessor." A manuscript of the monastery of Alberg calls him Longinus. We have found nothing else about him.