Prix de Saints
Feast: 26 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
According to the legend, Priscus (Prix) and Cottus were leading citizens of Besançon who fled the persecution of Aurelian with other Christians to the forests round Auxerre, where they were hunted down and killed, about 272.
St Germanus of Auxerre found their bodies in the fifth century and built two churches in their honour, and their veneration spread widely. Butler says the legend cannot be trusted, but the entry of Priscus in the old Hieronymian martyrology points to a genuine early devotion.
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
An early martyr of the Auxerre region.
Connected on this site
- Germanus of Auxerre Saint“St Germanus of Auxerre found their bodies in the fifth century and built two churches in their honour, and their veneration spread widely.” — this site's research
- Butler's Lives of the Saints, ed. Thurston and Attwater (1956), vol. II - 26 May
- Wikidata Q16671156 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.