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There are at least five medievally venerated saints from what is now France who are named Ferreolus. Two are celebrated on 18. September: Ferreolus of Vienne (d. 250 or 251, supposedly) and Ferreolus of Limoges (d. late 6th cent.; perh. after 591; the saint of the present notice). According to St. Gregory of Tours, as bishop of Limoges this Ferreolus (in French, Ferréol; formerly also Forgel) calmed a riot that had broken out there in 579 and, in another action, rebuilt the fire-destroyed basilica of St. Martin at today's Brive-la-Gaillarde (Corrèze). Ferreolus of Limoges is also recorded as having participated in the council of Mâcon in 583. A Vita of St. Aredius of Limoges (BHL 666; earliest witness is of the late ninth or early tenth century) has Ferreolus provide aid to that holy abbot (d. 591) and says that he presided at the latter's funeral. Still, as the Bollandists have assigned to this Vita the number of the Beast, it would perhaps be unwise to trust that account.
Today (18. September) is the principal feast day of Ferreolus of Limoges in Nexon (Haute-Vienne) and his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
Three views of a head reliquary of Ferreolus made in Limoges in 1346 for the church at Nexon (Haute-Vienne) and now kept in the treasury of the église de la Décollation-de-Saint-Jean-Baptiste in that town are here:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/chef.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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