Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Venerated in Auvergne, where they are called “ Les deux Amants the two lovers. Authority: — S. Gregory of Tours, in his book De Gloria Confessorum, c. 32, and in his Historia Francorum, lih. i., c. 41.

In Auvergne lived a youth named Injuriosus, who was married to a fair young girl called Scholastica. Now when the bridal feast was over, and the bridal torches were extinguished, he went to the marriage chamber, and he found her lying on her bed with her face to the wall, softly crying. He asked her the cause of her tears, and hesitatingly she told him that she had been happy as a simple girl, and she shrank from the cares and obligations of her new condition. “Be to me but a dearly loved brother rather than a husband,” she said, and he kissed her, and took her hand in his, and promised that so it should be. So they lived many years together, in the tenderest respect and love to one another. At length Scholastica died, and was taken to the church to be buried; then, as she lay in the vault, ere the stone slab was laid down over her, Injuriosus stood contemplating the dear face, and he lifted his hands and said, “ I thank Thee, O Eternal Father, that Thou didst give me this treasure. And now I give her back to Thee, pure as she came to me.” And all who looked down into the grave thought that the dead maiden smiled. So they closed the vault, and Injuriosus went to his home, now desolate and silent, and there his heart broke, and a few days after he was carried forth.

“ They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they were not divided.” The husband was laid on the opposite side of the church to his wife, and the church was closed for the night before the slab was mortared •S. Boniface [English missionary to Germany, martyred 754] IV.

down. Next morning the body was gone, and when search was made for it, the dead Injuriosus was found with his arms crossed on his breast, lying beside his dear wife Scholastica in her grave.