Lusor

Who they were

According to Gregory of Tours, Lusor was the son of Leucadius, a noble senator of the Roman province of Lyon who had given Saint Ursinus, first bishop of Bourges, the estates he owned in that region. Lusor is said to have died still wearing the white robe of the newly baptised, and so was remembered as a "puer" (child); he is entered as such in the Hieronymian Martyrology at 1 November, while other liturgical books of Bourges give the 4th.

A marble sarcophagus, although carved with pagan ornament, became the starting point of his veneration at Déols, near Châteauroux, which has been a place of pilgrimage since Merovingian times, as Gregory of Tours and graffiti on the sarcophagus attest. The church once dedicated to him there later took Saint Stephen as its patron instead; today only the parish of Augy-sur-Aubois still holds him as titular saint, and in the Proper of Bourges Lusor is commemorated on 16 November, Leucadius on the 23rd.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

Son of the senator Leucadius of Bourges, said to have died as a young child still in his baptismal robe; venerated at Déols since Merovingian times; commemorated on 4 November in some Bourges liturgical books.

Connected on this site

• Gregory of Tours Saint
  “According to Gregory of Tours, Lusor was the son of Leucadius, a noble senator of the Roman province of Lyon who had given Saint Ursinus, first bishop of Bourges, the estates he owned in that region.” — this site's research
• Leucadius of Bourges Saint
  “Son of the senator Leucadius of Bourges, said to have died as a young child still in his baptismal robe; venerated at Déols since Merovingian times; commemorated on 4 November in some Bourges liturgical books.” — this site's research