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Welcome back, Terri!
On 08/18/11, Terri Morgan wrote:
> Elaphius (d. 580) was bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne from 572 until his death. He died while traveling to Spain - Gregory of Tours says on a diplomatic mission, but later tradition more piously tells that Elaphius was in quest of the relics of St. Eulalia at Merida.
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More precisely, E. was bishop of the Châlons that in modern times used to be called Châlons-sur-Marne but that since 1998 has been Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne).
19. August is also the feast day of:
Calminius (d. 6th cent., supposedly). C. (also Calmelius; in French: Calmin, Calmine, and Carmery) is the traditional founder of the abbeys of Saint-Chaffre at today's Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille (Haute-Loire) and of Saint-Pierre at Mozac (Puy-de-Dôme), both in Auvergne. Surviving from his medieval Office at Mozac (because they were printed in the seventeenth century from a seemingly since lost manuscript) are a brief Vita (BHL 1526), a eulogy in thirty leonine hexameters, and a sequence in seven strophes followed by a prose collect. None of these evinces much knowledge of the historical C.
According to the Vita, which ends with a notice of an earlier twelfth-century Inventio of C.'s remains at Mozac, C. was a Roman senator who under Justinian became _dux_ of Aquitania, and who established the aforementioned monasteries. Additionally, he provided Mozac with a piece of St. Peter's jaw and with other relics of saints, all brought back with papal permission from a return trip to Rome, as well as with an entire arm of St. Caprasius of Agen that during his journey back to Mozac he had obtained from the custodians of that saint's relics at Agen. Worn out by his labors, he died at Mozac and was buried in a wooden chest under altar of the abbey's church. Thus far C.'s Vita.
Here's C. as portrayed on his thirteenth-century reliquary châsse of Limoges manufacure in the abbatiale St.-Pierre in Mozac:
http://tinyurl.com/42bsjxt
An illustrated, French-language page on the abbey at Mozac with expandable views both of its originally twelfth-century church (with notable capitals) and of C.'s great châsse housed therein:
http://tinyurl.com/35bvgcn
Further views of these:
http://www.narthex.fr/blogs/abbaye-de-cluny-910-2010/mozac
The church at Mozac is now part of the parish of Notre-Dame des Sources au Pays Riomois (whose own patron saint is St. Priest) in the diocese of Clermont. I have not found evidence on the respective websites of the parish and the diocese of any current veneration there of C. C. is commemorated today in the Église Orthodoxe de France.
Best,
John Dillon
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