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Sulpitius II of Bourges (d. 647). Sulpitius II (in Latin also Sulpicius; in French, Sulpice), the second sainted archbishop of Bourges of this name, is differentiated from his homonymous predecessor either by number or by the appellation Pius (as opposed to Sulpitius I Severus [29. January]). According to his Vitae (BHL 7927-7930), he was born into a noble family of the diocese of Bourges, where after some years as a pious and very charitable lay person he entered the clergy under archbishop St. Austregilus, was ordained deacon, and became director of the cathedral school. From there he went to the court of Chlotar I, returning in 624 to succeed Austregilus. As bishop he is credited with protecting the poor, founding monasteries, converting Jews, building a church at the city's port, and getting Clovis II to restore the city's tax immunity that had been cancelled by Dagobert I. Among his disciples were Sts. Desiderius of Cahors and Remaclus.
Toward the end of his life Sulpitius named a coadjutor and retired to a monastery he had founded. His Vitae attribute to him the operation of numerous miracles, both lifetime and posthumous. An early ninth-century successor made his feast a required celebration within the diocese. In the central Middle Ages many churches were dedicated to Sulpitius, including an originally twelfth-century predecessor of today's Saint-Sulpice in Paris, which latter is said to have some of his relics. He has been commemorated on 17. January since at least the ninth century, when Usuard of Saint-Germain entered him under that date in his martyrology.
An illustrated account of the originally twelfth-century église Saint-Sulpice-de-Bourges at Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois (Creuse) in the Limousin:
http://www.paysdunois.fr/article583.html
Two views of the interior of this church:
http://tinyurl.com/ognaysx
http://tinyurl.com/oqx3t3h
Two French-language accounts of the église Saint-Sulpice at Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne) in Île-de-France, a mostly thirteenth- and fourteenth-century pilgrimage church incorporating part of a twelfth-century predecessor called the Chapelle des Miracles:
http://fr.topic-topos.com/eglise-saint-sulpice-saint-sulpice-de-favieres
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89glise_Saint-Sulpice_de_Saint-Sulpice-de-Favi%C3%A8res
Another set of views starts here:
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/10227166
The église Saint-Sulpice in Paris in its late medieval state prior to the rebuilding begun in the 1640s:
http://dlsfootsteps.org/images/cities/paris/saint_sulpice/photos/Paris-St-Sulpice.jpg
A few further views may be seen here:
http://www.tombes-sepultures.com/crbst_1133.html
Sulpitius II (second from right) blessing petitioners seeking cures as portrayed on a pair of fourteenth-century reliefs mounted near the entrance to the Chapelle des Miracles in the aforementioned église Saint-Sulpice at Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières:
http://tinyurl.com/o5qateq
Sulpitius II (presumably) as portrayed in a fourteenth-century relief fragment though to have come from the now lost principal altar of the aforementioned église Saint-Sulpice at Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières, also mounted near the entrance to that church's Chapelle des Miracles:
http://tinyurl.com/pneluqr
Sulpitius II's consecration as bishop as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy (ca. 1470) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay followed by the _Festes nouvelles_ attributed to Jean Golein (Mâcon, Médiathèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 154r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_095356-p.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
(an older post revised)
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