The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

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was made by the mistake of private editors, and that the saint
originally meant here in the Roman Martyrology was Sulpicius Severus,
bishop of Bourges;[19] and Benedict XIV. proves and declares[20] that
Sulpicius Severus, the disciple of St. Martin, is not commemorated in
the Roman Martyrology. Nevertheless, he has been ranked among the saints
at Tours from time immemorial, and is honored with a particular office
on this day in the new breviary used in all that diocese. See his works
correctly printed, with various readings, notes, dissertations, and the
life of this saint, at Verona in 1741, in two volumes folio, by F. Jerom
de Prato, an Italian Oratorian of Verona: also Gallia Christiana tum
Vetus tum Nova: Tillemont, t. 12. Ceillier, t. 10, p. 635. Rivet, Hist.
Littér. de la France, t. 2, p. 95.
Footnotes:
1. Severus was his own proper name, Sulpicius that of his family, as is
testified by Gennadius and all antiquity. Vossius, Dupin, and some
others, on this account, will have him called Severus Sulpicius,
with Eugippius and St. Gregory of Tours. But other learned men
agree, that after the close of the republic of Rome, under the
emperors, the family name was usually placed first, though still
called Cognomen, and the other Prænomen, because the proper name
went anciently before the other. Thus we say Cæcilius Cyprianus,
Eusebius Hieronymus, Aurelius Agustinus, &c. See Sirmond, Ep.
præfixe Op. Serva. Lapi, and Hier. De Prato in vita Sulpicii Severi,
p. 56, &c.
2. Sulp. Sev. Hist. l. 2, c. 44.
3. {Footnote not in text} Ib. c. 48, and Ep. ad Bassulam. de Prato, p.
57.
4. S. Paulinus, Ep. 5 & 35.
5. Ib. Ep. 11, n. 6.
6. S. Paulinus, Ep. 1 & 24.
7. Ib. Ep. 52.
8. Sulpic. Sev. Ep. ad Paulin. ed à D'Achery in Spicileg. t. 52, p.
532, et inter opera S. Paulini, p. 119.
9. Ibid.
10. S. Paulin. Ep. ad Sulpic. Sev. p. 96.
11. Baluze, t. 1, Miscellan. p. 329.
12. S. Paulinus, Ep. 32, p. 204.
13. Many, upon the authority of St. Jerom, rank Sulpicius Severus among
the Millenarians, though all allow that he never defended any error
so as to be out of the communion of the church. But that he could
not be properly a Millenarian, seems clear from several parts of his
writings. For, Ep. 2 and 3, he affirms, that the souls of St. Martin
and St. Clarus passed from this world to the immediate beatific
vision of God. He establishes the same principles, Ep. 1, ad
Claudiam Soror., c. 5. And in his Sacred History, l. 2, c. 3,