ON S. CONTEXTUS, OR CONTESTIUS, BISHOP OF BAYEUX IN GAUL.
CommentaryContextus or Contestius, Bishop of Bayeux in Gaul (S.)
S. Contextus was a Bishop of the Baiocasses in the second province of Lugdunensis, which is now Normandy; in the catalogues of Claudius Robertus and Ioannes Chenus, but faulty ones, he is listed as the sixth. Molanus records his feast in the Additions to Usuardus, The feast of S. Contextus, on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of February: On the same day, he says, at Bayeux, of B. Contextus, Bishop and Confessor. He is also mentioned by the Cologne Carthusians, Ferrarius, the German Martyrology, and Saussaius, who says he succeeded S. Manneus, and calls him Contestius, the name, others Concessus and Contestus. We have found nothing more about him.