Ilpidius the Martyr

From the Gallican Martyrology of Andrew Saussay.

Commentary

Ilpidius, Martyr in the Gabalitan territory of Gaul (S.)

D. P.

The memory of these Martyrs is celebrated

by Saussay in the Supplement of

the Gallican Martyrology in these

words: "In the Gabalitan territory

the feast of St. Ilpidius the Martyr, who up

to old age devoted to the offices of piety,

Eulogy from Saussay and secretly watching over the burial of the sacred bodies of the Martyrs,

made the stronger thereby,

his own goods being distributed to the uses of the poor,

withdrew to the high summit of a mountain near

the bank of the Allier: where, when he had stayed

for two years, on account of the peoples converted to

Christ, under the Princes Valerian and Gallienus

he was granted the laurel of martyrdom." These things

Saussay says, which would that we had established from the proper Offices of the Church

of Gévaudan.

[2] The chief episcopal city of his domain, Mende

or Mimata, of the people of Gabalum or of the Gabali,

is sometimes also called Gabala, and it had and venerates

holy Bishops: Severianus, of whom our Bollandus

treats on the 25th of January from Usuard, though the feast

is now said to be kept on the 26th; Privatus, crowned with Martyrdom under Crocus

King of the Alamanni, and assigned to the 13th

of November, of whom then there is to be treated from

Gregory of Tours; Firminus, of whom

see what is said on the 14th of January; St. Hilary, of him and five others to be commemorated on the 25th

of October; St. Ilerus or Iserus,

of whom, say the Sammarthani, there are more things

in the Office of the particular Saints of the Church

of Mende: they do not add the day; which Saussay

not only notes on the 1st of December with no long eulogy, but

says is venerated again on the sixth day of October; and finally

Fredaldus, on the 4th of September, The Acts are wanting for whom likewise

a proper Office is cited. It is therefore to be wished

by us, that those proper Offices, not yet

seen by us, we may sometime be able to receive thence.

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