02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - Today, December 18, is Saint Sulpitius the Pious's Day, With Footnotes - 148

Saint Sulpitius

Sulpitius (or Sulpicius) the Pious (died 17 January 644) was a 7th-century bishop of Bourges and a saint.

Sulpitius was born at Vatan (Diocese of Bourges), of noble parents, before the end of the sixth century. From his youth he devoted himself to good works and to the study of Scripture, and donated his large patrimony to the church and the poor.

The Bishop of Bourges ordained him cleric of his church, then deacon, and finally made him director of his episcopal school. Clotaire II, King of the Franks, who had heard of his merits, made him almoner and chaplain of his armies. Upon the death of the Bishop, Sulpicious was recalled to Bourges to succeed him. 

Saint Sulpitius

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

As bishop, Sulpício, besides placing the Church as the basis of the political consolidation of the country, structured a solid religious and human formation of the clergy, through the monastic life that he implanted, to guarantee the safest way of evangelization of the people.

Sulpitius gave leave for no-one, neither heretic, gentile or Jew, to live in the city of Bourges without the grace of baptism" - with many consequent conversions from the Jews of Bourges.

Sulpitius intervened with King Dagobert on behalf of his flock, of whom a too heavy tax was exacted. When the people came complaining of their treatment to Sulpicius, he decreed a three-day fast for clergy and laity, but also sent one of his clergy, Ebargisilus by name, to the king.

Sulpitius retired to a monastery which he had founded near Bourges. There he died on 17 January 646, which day several manuscripts of the Hieronymian Martyrology indicate as his feast. The reports of miracles at his tomb in the basilica he had ordered built began soon after his death and the place became a place of pilgrimage. More on Sulpitius

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