The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity

from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world

Name

Gregory, bishop of Langres, ob. 539/540

Saint ID

S00038

Number in BH

BHL 3665-3666

Reported Death Not Before

539

Reported Death Not After

540

Gender

Male

Type of Saint

Bishops , Married but sexually abstinent, Widows and widowers, Aristocrats

Related Evidence Records

ID	Title
E00049	Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Gregory (bishop of Langres, ob. 539/540, S00038): the saint, a former count of Autun, then bishop of Langres (eastern Gaul), is presented as a miracle worker both during his lifetime and after his death. Gregory, Life of the Fathers Book 7, written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Gregory of Langres.
E00053	Gregory of Tours, in his Life of Gregory (bishop of Langres, ob. 539/540, S00038), recounts how, on the saint's death in Langres, his body was taken to Dijon for burial in the church of John (either the Baptist, S00020, or the Apostle and Evangelist, S00042); all in eastern Gaul. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (7.3-4), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594.
E00055	Gregory of Tours, in his Life of Gregory (bishop of Langres, ob. 539/540, S00038), tells how, with accompanying miracles, the body of the saint was moved to a newly built apse in the church of John (either the Baptist, S00020, or the Apostle and Evangelist S00042) in Dijon (eastern Gaul) by his son and successor as bishop of Langres. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (7.4-5), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594.
E05555	Venantius Fortunatus writes eleven books of Poems in Latin, mainly in western and north-western Gaul, 565/600; many of them with reference to saints. Overview entry.
E05687	Venantius Fortunatus, in a poetic epitaph (Poem 4.2) for *Gregory (bishop of Langres, ob. 539/540, S00038), mentions miracles of the saint; in Langres (eastern Gaul). Written in Latin in Gaul, 565/576.
E05870	Gregory of Tours writes the Life of the Fathers, collecting the lives of twenty Gallic bishops, abbots and recluses; written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview/list of the twenty Lives.