ON SAINT AUGIA
MARTYR AT APT-JULIA IN GAUL.
CommentaryAugia, Martyr at Apt-Julia in Gaul (S.)
G. H.
Apt-Julia, an ancient city of Narbonese Gaul and Episcopal, in the present Provence on the Coulon river, situated midway between Aix-en-Provence its Metropolis toward the West, and Avignon toward the East, besides various Bishops of its Church ascribed to the Saints, and S. Martin or Martian the Abbot, and the Divine Elzear and Delphine, has several others: but their bodies, almost unknown, it possesses in the lower crypt of the high altar of the Church. The memory in Saussay, The name of one sets forth Saussay in the supplement to the Gallican Martyrology on this XIV of May in these words: At Apt-Julia of the Vulgientes under the Metropolitan Chair of Aix, is the birthday of S. Augia the Martyr, laureled for the law and glory of Christ, in the supreme contest which she underwent: whose sacred body, long since placed in the high temple of Apt, has there a perpetual veneration; some particles nevertheless having been plucked from the precious clod, which at Aix-en-Provence with great honor are preserved placed again. Philip Ferrarius in the Catalogue of the Saints who are not in the Roman Martyrology, and Ferrarius. on this same XIV of May has these things: At Apt in Gaul, of S. Augia the Martyr, and in the Notes adds: From the records of the Church of Apt, where her body is placed, and it has a great veneration. There are extant her MS. monuments, from which it is clear that she was of the Salebrona or Sabrona family. Others think she rests at Aix-en-Provence. Thus far we could not attain more: nor do we think it worthwhile to inquire more laboriously into MS. monuments of this kind: for who would esteem very ancient or worthy of consideration those things, by which the Saint is inserted into the Salebrona family, verisimilarly having suffered under the heathen Emperors, and so not a few centuries earlier than those nations occupied the Gauls, from whom the name Salebrona first to some place, then to the family possessing it began to be? which last ought not to be believed done before the XI century.