Elpidius of Lyon (m. Lyon, France, 422) also known as HelpidiusClaude Du Lut BREGHOT, Catalogue Lyonnais worthy of remembrance (Techener, 1839) page 102-104. was a pre-Congregation saint and 5th century bishop of Lyon.David M. Cheney, Archdiocese of Lyon at catholic-hierarchy.org. Archdiocese of Lyon, France at Catholic Saints.info.Lyons. at Newadvent.org.Lyon. at GCatholic.org.Philip T. Hoffman, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500–1789 (Yale University Press, 1984).MGuillaume Paradin, Memoires De L'Histoire De Lyon (by Antoine Gryphius, 1573) p61Étienne Joseph Poullin de Lumina, Histoire de l'église de Lyon (chez Joseph-Louis Berthoud, 1770)p 56.
Life He succeeded Antiochus of Lyon as bishop in 410AD and is well attested in the Episcopal lists and it was said of him that he well served his diocese, but outside of that nothing is known of his episcopate as his vita has been lost. His name was a common Roman cognomen.
Death and legacy He died of natural causes in 422 and his relics are laid in the Benedictine church of Sant Just, in Lyon.Pius XII, Martyrologium Romanum [Roman martyrology] (in Latin), (Rome, 1956), accessed October 28, 2011.Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate His feast day is 2 September.Katherine Rabenstein I. (1998). "Saint of the Day: September 2» Saints of the Day.
He was succeeded by Sicarius of Lyon as Bishop.
See also Catholic Church in France
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