According to St. Gregory of Tours, Paul was sent from Rome to Gaul with Saturninus, Dionysius, Trophimus, Martial and Gatian.
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According to St. Gregory of Tours, Paul was sent from Rome to Gaul with Saturninus, Dionysius, Trophimus, Martial and Gatian. He preached at Narbonne and died in peace. The poet Prudentius wrote that Paul made Narbonne illustrious. Baring-Gould places him in the third or fourth century.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 126 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Saint Paul, mentioned by the early martyrologies as bishop of Narbonne, and confessor, has been conjectured to be Sergius Paulus, the proconsul, converted in the island of Cyprus by the apostle Paul, when Elymas, the sorcerer, withstood S. Paul. There is no evidence substantiating this, nor does it appear to rest on any very ancient tradition. The most ancient martyrologies do not assert it, though some of them say that he was a convert of the Apostle of the Gentiles.
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Saint Paul, mentioned by the early martyrologies as bishop of Narbonne, and confessor [in old usage, a saint who was not martyred, or who suffered for the faith without being killed], has been conjectured to be Sergius Paulus, the proconsul, converted in the island of Cyprus by the apostle Paul, when Elymas, the sorcerer, withstood S. Paul. There is no evidence substantiating this, nor does it appear to rest on any very ancient tradition.
The most ancient martyrologies do not assert it, though some of them say that he was a convert of the Apostle of the Gentiles. The Roman Martyrology mentions the report, but does not authorise it. The Acts of his life are not deserving of credence. S. Paul certainly lived much later than he is represented to have done.
Some relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are preserved in the Church of S. Paul at Narbonne.
Feast: March 22
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Paul of Narbonne's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
