Prætextatus
Bishop of Rouen
Feast: 24 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Saint Prætextatus (French: Prétextat/Prix de Rouen; died 25 February 586), also spelled Praetextatus, Pretextat(us), and known as Saint Prix, was the bishop of Rouen from 549 until his assassination in 586. He appears as a prominent character in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum (History of the Franks). This is the principal source from which information on his life can be drawn. He features in many of its most notable passages, including those pertaining to his trial in Paris (in 577) and his rivalry with the Merovingian Queen Fredegund.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Gregory of Tours Saint“He appears as a prominent character in Gregory of Tours’ Historia Francorum (History of the Franks).” — Wikipedia
- Butler's Lives of the Saints (Thurston and Attwater) - St Praetextatus, or Prix, bishop and martyr, 24 February — The Dominican martyrology also reads 'At Rouen, the suffering of St Praetextatus, bishop and martyr'.
- Wikidata Q1281930 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Prætextatus (bishop of Rouen) (CC BY-SA)
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