Baring-Gould’s sources: Usuardus, Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. The translation of S. Exuperius on June 14. Authority: — The Letters of S. Jerome.] 1 AINT EXUPERIUS is believed to have been bom at Bordeaux. He was raised to the see of Toulouse on the death of S. Sylvius, in a.d. 405. S. Jerome, who wrote to him, speaks in the highest terms of his virtue and charity. “ To relieve their hunger,” says he, “ he suffers it himself, and condemns himself to the severest self-denial, that he may be enabled to administer to their wants. The paleness of his face declares the rigour of his fasts. But his poverty makes him truly rich; so poor is he, as to be forced to carry the body of the Lord in an osier basket, and His blood in a glass vessel. His charity knew no bounds. It sought for objects in the most distant parts, and the solitaries of Egypt felt its beneficial effects/7 One of the first acts of S. Exuperius at Toulouse was the completion of the church of S. Saturninus, and the translation to it of the body of that saint, the apostle of Toulouse. | lowards the close of a.d. 404, S. Exuperius proposed several questions to Pope Innocent I., and these the great Pope answered in a letter still extant. One of the questions proposed was what books were to be regarded as canonical, and S. Innocent in his answer gave a list, the same as is now that in the Roman Church, but in order different.1 The invasion of his country by the Goths and Vandals took place during his time, but he was not witness to the taking of Toulouse, having died before Walla, King of the Goths, made it the capital of his kingdom. S. Paulinus reckoned Exuperius as one of the greatest bishops among the Gauls. S. Jerome dedicated to him his commentary on Zechariah.

Relics at Arreau, in the Pyrenees; his glass chalice at Toulouse.