Saint Palladius of Auxerre

The principal acts of his episcopate were: the embellishment of the church of Saint-Étienne; the translation, outside the city walls, of the ancient monastery of Saint-Julien, in which he established nuns and to which he gave lands for the support of a large number of the poor (644).

He also raised a monastery for men, on a small eminence to the S.W. of Auxerre, un der the invocation of Saint Eu sebius, Bish op of Vercel li: the church was adorned, by his care, with mosaics where neither gold nor pure crystal were spared.

He attended several councils held in his time and died, full of merits, on April 10, 658, after thirty-six years and a few months of episcopate. He was buried in the chu rch of Saint-Eusèbe w here numerous miracles glorified his tomb: Bishop Gu i canonized him on July 30, 945.

Writers who have dealt with ecclesiastical discipline have observed two things in the acts of the pontificate of Saint Palladius: the first is that religious women—except for those subject to the rule of Saint Caesarius—were not cloistered, since he ordered those of the monastery of Saint-Julien to go in procession to the cathedral every Thursday; the second is that, to make the cult of Saint Germanus more pomp ous, he found ed an annual endowment of one hundred sous payable on that day to the canons of the cathedral. This is, it is said, the first example of foundations of this kind.