Name
Aemilianus and Brachio, hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576
Saint ID
S00087
Reported Death Not Before
576
Reported Death Not After
576
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Hermits/recluses, Merchants, artisans and other free people, Monastic founders, Groups and pairs of saints
| ID | Title | E00222 | Gregory of Tours writes the Life of *Aemilianus and Brachio (hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576, S00087): it presents Aemilianus as a hermit with control over animals, and Brachio as a founder and reformer of monasteries in the Auvergne and Touraine (central and north-west Gaul). Gregory, Life of the Fathers Book 12, written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. Overview of Gregory's Life of Aemilianus and Brachio. | E00223 | Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Aemilianus and Brachio (hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576, S00087), tells how Brachio learned to read and write by copying the inscriptions around the images of apostles and other saints, in an oratory in Clermont (central Gaul), shortly before 534. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (12.2), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. | E00224 | Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Aemilianus and Brachio (hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576, S00087), recounts how relics of saints were deposited overnight on the altar of the church of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050) in Tours; Brachio held vigils in the church and witnessed the apparition of a miraculous ball of fire. From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (12.3), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. | E00225 | Gregory of Tours, in his Life of *Aemilianus and Brachio (hermit, and monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 535/550 and 576, S00087), recounts how Brachio was first buried in the oratory of his first cell; two years later his uncorrupted body was transferred to the burial site he himself had chosen; all at Pionsat in the Auvergne (central Gaul). From Gregory's Life of the Fathers (12.3), written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 573/594. | E02603 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (37-38), discourses on the holy fire that can sometimes be seen emanating from live saints, and also from their relics; he recounts how fire was seen by *Brachio (monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 576, S00087) emanating from relics brought by travellers to the church in Tours of *Martin (ascetic and bishop of Tours, ob. 397, S00050). Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. | 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. | E07875 | Gregory of Tours, in his Histories (5.7), records the death in 576 of *Brachio (monastic founder of the Auvergne and Touraine, ob. 576, S00087), giving a few details of his life and referring to Gregory's Life of Aemilianus and Brachio for more. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 576/594. |
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