ON ST. MAURELIUS, PRESBYTER,
IN THE DIOCESE OF TROYES IN GAUL.
VI CENTURY.
HISTORICAL COLLECTION
Concerning his death, translation and cult.
Maurelius the Presbyter, in the diocese of Troyes in Gaul (St.)
G. H.
Saint Leo, Abbot of the monastery of Montiéramey, distant two leagues from the city of Troyes, as we said at his Life on April XXV, by the appearing holy Bishops Hilary, Martin, and Anianus admonished of his impending death, that he might more certainly believe, received this response: The venerable man Maurelius the Presbyter, snatched from this light, Death heavenly indicated to St. Leo. has migrated to the Lord. Therefore on the second day at the first dawn rise, and with that praise, of which he is worthy, bury him in the basilica of St. Ursio. Then he going quickly, what had been said to him, faithfully fulfilled. Thus there. Nicolas Des-Guerrois on the Saints of Troyes asserts the said basilica of St. Ursio, distant from the city of Troyes toward the South two leagues, to have been near the brook Oze in a place which is called Insula and in Geographical maps Isle, honored with the title of Marquisate at this
time: of which church the Patron, with the right of presenting the Parish-priest, is the Abbot of Molesme: because St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme and Founder, of the Cistercian Order, founded there a Priory, in place of a destroyed monastery, which formerly had been there, and in which St. Maurelius is believed to have lived. The bodies of SS. Ursio and Maurelius enclosed in the same chest, The bodies of SS. Ursio and Maurelius translated, were translated to the monastery of Celle of St. Frodobert the Abbot, of whom we treated at his Life on the day VIII of January, and the feast of the translation is celebrated on April XXIX: on which day in the Martyrology of Celle of St. Peter these things are read: cult April 29 The Translation of SS. Ursio and Maurelius the Confessors, from the village which is called Insula, to the monastery of St. Peter, which is called Insula Germanica. The same Saints are celebrated in the manuscript Martyrology of the Carmelite Order, likewise in another struck at Cologne and Lübeck about the year 1490, in the Appendix of Greven to Usuard, and in the margin of the manuscript Florarium. From these St. Ursio has his proper day September XXIX: but St. Maurelius this XXI of May, on which in the Martyrologies of Celle of St. Peter, and May 21 and of Troyes of St. Lupus, and others these things are read: At Troyes, in the place which is called Insula Germanica, St. Maurelius the Confessor: where Des Guerrois would prefer Insula only to be read, that the former place, in which he departed from this life, might better be indicated. In the abovesaid Martyrology struck at Cologne and Lübeck, the Appendix of Greven and the manuscript Florarium, and also in Maurolycus, Ferrarius and others, only these things are had: At Troyes St. Maurilius the Confessor. Saussay in the Gallican Martyrology writes these things: At Troyes St. Maurelius the Presbyter, Monk and Confessor: whose life shone forth with great examples of piety, his death with testimonies of divine glorification. Both Saints Ursio and Maurelius Menard and Bucelin inscribe in their Benedictine Martyrologies; but Des-Guerrois protests, Whether he was a Benedictine. asserting that he, treating with Menard, had demonstrated, that he lived too early to be able to be of the Order of St. Benedict: which same concerning St. Ursio observes Charles le Cointe in the Ecclesiastical Annals of the Franks at the year 525 number 13. Menard in the Notes confesses it not so certain, whether he was a Benedictine, and asserts that he lived about the year five hundred fifty-one.