Euverte d'Orléans

Euverte d'Orléans or St. Euverte (died 7 September in Orléans) also known as Evurtius, Evortius or Eortius, was the fourth Bishop of Orléans in the 4th century. He participated in the Council of Valencia in 374. The first Life of Saint Aignan, written between 474 and 530, is the oldest text attributing the construction of a Saint Euverte cathedral at Orléans. The exact date of his death is not known. Only the day (7 September) was transmitted by martyrologies in order to celebrate its anniversary. The name of his immediate successor is not known either.

Saint

Euverte

Bishop of Orléans
Statue of Saint Euverte in the Church of Bussy-le-Repos
Born4th century
Diedc. 340
Feast7 September

Butler's account

The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under September 7,

St. Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans, Confessor He flourished in the reign of Constantine the Great, and died about the year 340. His name is famous in the ancient western Martyrologies, but his history is of no authority, as Stilting complains. Three translations have been made of his relics. A famous abbey at Orleans bears his name. See Gallia Christ. Nov. t. 8, p. 1573, and Stilting.[1]

Sarum entry

The Martyrology of the Use of Sarum includes the following.

At Orlyauce the deposicyon of saynt Eurcy a confessour, that (as is wryten in his legend) was the fyrst subdeacon of the chirche of Rome, & after by a myracle in a sygne of a dove, he was electe bisshop of the same cite. [2]


Citation
  1. Butler 1799, p. 72.
  2. Sarum Martirology, Richard Whitford, ed. William Renwick, mmxii.,<https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/16149/2/Sarum%20Martirology%20English.pdf>

Bibliography
  • Butler, Alban (1799), The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from Original Monuments and Other Authentic Records, vol. 9, J. Moir, retrieved 2021-08-19
  • Histoire d'Orléans et de son terroir. Roanne/Le Coteau [France]: Horvath. 1982–1983. ISBN 2-7171-0276-0.
  • La fondation des églises locales, le culte des saints et des reliques : [Actes du] colloque d'Orléans, 19-20 octobre 2000. Le Blanc: Rencontre avec le patrimoine religieux. 2001. ISBN 2-911948-15-7.
  • Schmitt, Jean-Claude (2016). Les rythmes au Moyen Âge. [Paris]: Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-017769-1.
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