MARZIALE, bishop of LIMOGES, Saint - He is commemorated in the Jeronymian Martyrology on June 30. According to St. Gregory of Tours he would have been one of the seven bishops sent, around the middle of the 3rd century, from Rome into Gaul to preach the Gospel there.

The city of Limoges would have fallen to M.; there, together with two presbyters whom he had brought with him, he would have preached and converted many. After his death he would have been buried in a crypt together with his co-workers. In 852 his body was transferred to a new church.

According to a biography written in the 11th century, when in Gaul discussions were raging over the claim of apostolicity for the various dioceses, probably by Ademar of Chabannes, M. is said to have been a disciple of St. Peter and to have been sent by him to Limoges: this is evidently a legend manipulated in a spirit of local patriotism.

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BIBL.: S. Gregorio di Tours, Historia Francorum, I, 30 and De gloria Confessorum, 27; L. Duchesne, Fastes episcopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, II, Paris 1910, pp. 104-17; Lanzoni, p. 57; Martyr. Romanum, p. 262 ff.; F. Wormald, The English saints in the Litany in Arundel Mt. 60, in Anal. Boll., (1946), pp. 84-86.

Agostino Amore

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