dimanche 17 janvier 2016

Saint SULPICE le Pieux, évêque


Buste de Saint Sulpice dans l'église de Saint Sulpice de Favières, Essonne


Saint Sulpice le Pieux

+Évêque de Bourges (+ 647)

Chapelain du roi Clotaire II puis évêque de Bourges. Il fut le protecteur des pauvres et des persécutés. Son nom fut donné à une paroisse de Paris, qui fut le berceau des séminaires pour la formation des prêtres.

Évêque de Bourges (647) l'un des grands évêques de la Gaule. Il a donné son nom à la célèbre abbaye de Saint Sulpice, anciennement monastère de Notre-Dame de la Nef, où il fut inhumé (aujourd'hui maison des Petites Sœurs des Pauvres à Bourges). Au moins 350 paroisses, en France, en Belgique, en Suisse ... l'honorent comme Saint Patron, preuve évidente du rayonnement de l'abbaye Saint Sulpice de Bourges. (Diocèse de Bourges)

À Bourges, vers 647, saint Sulpice, surnommé le Pieux, évêque, qui fut promu de la cour royale à l’épiscopat et n’eut rien de plus cher que de prendre soin de la cause des pauvres.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/449/Saint-Sulpice-le-Pieux.html


Tableau représentant saint Sulpice bénissant les enfants, église de Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil, commune nouvelle de Mareuil en Périgord, Dordogne, France.


Saint Sulpice le Pieux

Né à Vatan en Berry à la fin du 6ème siècle, il fut appelé « le Pieux » ou « le Bon » ou le « Débonnaire », à cause de la douceur de son caractère. Il passa ses premières années à la cour du roi de Bourgogne.

De parents nobles, il fut passionné très tôt par Dieu et les saints livres et dégouté des délices du monde. Il aimait se retirer dans les églises et changeait sont habit de courtisan en habit de pénitent.

Déjà, il chassait le malin des possédés, guérissait des malades par des prières, attirait des personnes à la pratique de la vertu et à servir Dieu, bâtissait des églises, meublait des hôpitaux, ornait des monastères, délivrait des prisonniers et catéchisait les idolâtres dans les campagnes.

Sous les rois mérovingiens, les Francs de race noble ne pouvaient se consacrer au service des autels sans la permission du roi; leur naissance les destinait au métier des armes. Le roi Thierry permît de donner au saint jeune la cléricature.

Il fut aumônier de l’armée du roi Clotaire II qu’il guérit d’une grave maladie et qui, en 624, le nomma archevêque de Bourges.

Vrai type du « Bon Pasteur », il prêcha toujours d’exemple. Il s’employa au soulagement des pauvres et à la conversion des Juifs de sa ville épiscopale de Bourges. Il accomplit plusieurs miracles entre 625 et 647 en guérissant des aveugles, des sourds, des paralytiques, des muets, en ramenant à la vie deux morts et en stoppant plusieurs incendies par la prière.
Il mourut le 17 janvier 647 et fut inhumé près de Bourges, dans l’abbaye réorganisée par ses soins.

Saint Sulpice le Pieux est fêté le 17 janvier.

Sulpice le Pieux a donné son nom à l’église Saint-Sulpice à Paris, berceau des séminaires pour la formation des prêtres. Plus de 300 paroisses l’honorent en France, en Belgique et en Suisse. Particulièrement dans le Berry où une vingtaine de chapelles et paroisses lui sont dédiées. Plus de quarante communes se nomment « Saint-Sulpice » en France, deux en Suisse, au moins une en Belgique…

SOURCE : https://saintsulpicesurlezepatrimoine.com/saint-sulpice-le-pieux/

Bannière paroissiale en l'église Saint-Sulpice de Fougères (35).


17 JAN SAINT SULPICE ÉVÊQUE DE BOURGES, NOTRE SAINT PATRON

Posted at 16:15h in Actualités et informationsEditoriaux by Pierre-Yves Peurois 0 Comments  

Né en 570, à Vatan, dans le Berry, Sulpice a été envoyé par ses parents à la cour, comme page du roi franc Gontran, petit-fils de Clovis. A 16 ans, son père l’oblige à travailler à l’exploitation agricole familiale, alors qu’il veut devenir moine.

En 612 Saint Outrille, évêque de Bourges, ayant entendu parler de sa droiture, l’appelle à son service, le nomme archidiacre, gérant de la maison épiscopale, responsable de l’assistance des pauvres et gérant de l’école cathédrale.

Ordonné prêtre en 618, à 48 ans, il devient aumônier des armées du roi Clotaire II. Mais, six ans plus tard, à la mort de Outrille, les chrétiens de Bourges le réclament comme évêque : il devient évêque de Bourges et archevêque d’une très grande Province qui comprenait aussi les diocèses de Clermont, Limoges, Cahors, Albi, Rodez, Mende et Le Puy. Son souci des pauvres le pousse à fonder le premier Hôtel-Dieu de la ville. Il meurt le 17 janvier 647, il y a 1374 ans aujourd’hui !

L’abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, fondée au VIème siècle par un roi mérovingien, Childebert 1er, a placé notre église paroissiale sous la protection de ce grand serviteur des rois mérovingiens qu’avait été Saint-Sulpice.

Ce week-end, c’est donc la fête patronale de notre église. C’est l’occasion de rendre grâce à Dieu pour tout ce qui s’y vit de beau et de confier tout ce qui doit encore s’y développer. C’est aussi l’occasion de nous réapproprier notre saint patron.

Saint Sulpice est un saint un peu oublié dans la spiritualité française, mais c’est un saint très populaire dans l’histoire de l’Église puisque 75 églises en France portent son nom, 6 en Belgique et une au Canada. 42 communes actuelles et 10 anciennes communes portent également son nom en France… C’est dire le nombre de sulpiciens (habitants des communes appelées Saint-Sulpice) en France !

Une première manière d’accueillir notre Saint Patron c’est donc de vivre une communion spirituelle avec toutes les personnes qui vivent de manière consciente ou inconsciente sous le patronage de Saint Sulpice. Nous faisons partie de ces nombreux héritiers spirituels de ce grand saint. Cela nous décentre un peu de Paris et nous ouvre à la vie chrétienne de notre pays et de nombreuses réalités rurales.

Saint Sulpice a été choisi comme évêque parce qu’il était un homme droit et intègre. Comme le Christ pendant ses 30 années à Nazareth, Sulpice n’a pas fait parler de lui avant 50 ans. Il s’est enraciné dans la vie chrétienne, exerçant son métier simplement, attentif aux pauvres. Il est devenu progressivement un pilier de la maison épiscopale… non pas par promotion, mais par son esprit de service et de communion. À sa suite, nous sommes invités à vivre l’humble enracinement de notre foi dans la simplicité du quotidien comme un lieu de fécondité pour toute l’Église.

Saint Sulpice est un exemple de vocation tardive : prêtre à 48 ans et évêque à 54… au VIIème siècle c’était très âgé… Il n’aurait pas pu être le pasteur qu’il a été sans un profond ancrage dans la vie spirituelle durant les années qui ont précédé son ordination, mais il n’empêche que sa vie pastorale de prêtre et d’évêque a été extrêmement féconde jusqu’à sa mort. Je trouve que c’est dynamisant pour une part importante de notre population paroissiale qui profite de la retraite pour être de manière très active au service de notre paroisse. Alors quand la fatigue est là, prions saint Sulpice !

Saint Sulpice a été aussi un grand pasteur, qui a marqué son diocèse et bien d’autres. On peut retenir notamment son souci des pauvres avec la fondation d’un hôpital. Nous pouvons lui confier le rayonnement pastoral de notre paroisse et notre attention au service des plus pauvres.

Alors que beaucoup de saints sont connus indépendamment des lieux de culte qui leur sont dédicacés, ici, c’est plutôt le contraire. C’est grâce à notre église Saint-Sulpice que la plupart d’entre nous avons entendu parler de notre Saint Patron pour la première fois… Mais après tout, n’est-ce pas la meilleure manière d’honorer les saints que de faire en sorte que les gens aient envie de découvrir Saint-Sulpice grâce à la vitalité de notre paroisse ?

Alors bonne fête à tous !

Père Henri de la Hougue

SOURCE : https://www.paroissesaintsulpice.paris/2021/01/17/saint-sulpice-eveque-de-bourges-notre-saint-patron/


Bannière de Saint-Sulpice. Intérieur de l'église Saint-Sulpice d'Ossé (35).


Saint Sulpicius of Bourges

Also known as

Pius of Bourges

Sulpice of Bourges

Sulpicius the Pious

Memorial

17 January

Profile

Born wealthy. Decided young to live celibately, and devoted himself to charity. Bishop of BourgesFrance in 624. Spiritual teacher of Saint Remaclus. He became known for his personal piety and austerity, and such a good example that he is reported to have converted his entire diocese. Fought for the rights of his people against King Dagobert’s minister, Lullo. Attended the Council of Clichy in 627. Late in life he resigned his see to devote himself to prayer and service to the poor.

Died

647 of natural causes

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Lives of the Saints, part 1, by Father Alban Butler

Lives of the Saints, part 2, by Father Alban Butler

Roman Martyrology1914 edition

Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict, by Father Aegedius Ranbeck, O.S.B.

Short Lives of the Saints, by Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly

books

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Catholic Online

John Dillon

images

Santi e Beati

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Cathopedia

Santi e Beati

nettsteder i norsk

Den katolske kirke

spletne strani v slovenšcini

Svetniki

MLA Citation

“Saint Sulpicius of Bourges“. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 September 2021. Web. 17 January 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sulpicius-of-bourges/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sulpicius-of-bourges/


Sulpicius II Pius B (RM)

(also known as Sulpice or Sulpicius Le Debonnaire)

Born in Berry; died 647. The very celebrated seminary of Saint- Sulpice in Paris is named after this beloved bishop of Bourges, Aquitaine (France) from 624 to 647. Sulpice was born into a wealthy family. In his youth, he renounced marriage, gave his patrimony to the Church, and devoted himself to Christ. After his ordination, he served King Clotaire II as almoner and chaplain for his armies. He once restored the dangerously ill king to health through his prayers and fasting.

In 624, Sulpicius succeed Saint Austregesilus as the second bishop of Bourges. He gained popular admiration for his generosity, solicitude, and defense of his people against the tyranny of the Merovingian kings, particularly an official of King Dagobert. His charity seemed inexhaustible and evinced itself in miraculous powers. It is related that he converted all the Jews in his diocese and employed all his time in prayer and episcopal work.

In 627, Sulpice attended the council of Clichy. Late in life, he resigned his position in order to spend more time in solitude. His death and funeral were attended by extraordinary demonstrations of popular mourning. The enormous crowds made it almost impossible for the officiating clergy to conduct the burial service.

The collection of letters of Saint Desiderius of Cahors contain a set entitled "To the holy patriarch, Sulpicius and several of our saint to him." The famous monastery of Saint-Sulpice at Bourges is said to have been founded by him under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin; it now belongs to the congregation of Saint Maur, and is enriched with part of his relics, and some of the blood of Saint Stephen, titular saint of the stately cathedral. A bone of one of the arms of Sulpicius is kept in the famous parochial church in Paris (Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, Farmer, Husenbeth).

In art Saint Sulpicius is portrayed visiting the sick (Roeder). 

SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0117.shtml

Le Bugue - Église Saint-Sulpice - Vitrail de saint Sulpice : saint Sulpice enfant en prière.


Sulpitius

Sulpitius the Pious (or the Débonnaire), born at Vatan (Diocese of Bourges), of noble parents, before the end of the sixth century, devoted himself from his youth to good works and the study of Holy Scripture. Austregisilus, Bishop of Bourgesordained him cleric of his church, then deacon, and finally made him director of his episcopal school. Clotaire II, King of the Franks, who had heard his merits spoken of, summoned him and made him chaplain of his armies. But at the death of Bishop Austregisilus (c. 624) he was recalled to Bourges to take his place. Sulpitius thenceforth laboured with much zeal and success to re-establish ecclesiastical discipline, for the relief of the poor and the conversion of the Jews. In 626 he assisted at the Council of Clichy and held several others with the bishops of his province, but nothing of them remains. He intervened with King Dagobert in behalf of his flock, of whom a too heavy tax was exacted. At the request of the same king he consecrated to the See of Cahors his treasurer St. Didier, who was his personal friend, and there are extant three letters which he addressed to him. Towards the end of his life Sulpitius took a coadjutor, Vulfolnde, and retired to a monastery which he had founded near Bourges. There he died 17 Jan., 646, which day several Manuscripts of the Hieronymian Martyrology indicate as his feast. In his honour the church bearing his name was built in Paris, from which the Society of St. Sulpice derives its own.

Sources

KRUSCH, Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script. rerum merov. (Hanover, 1902), IV; Acta SS., II, 529; Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum bibliothecæ Bruxellensis (Brussels, 1889), II, 76; MABILLON, Acta SS. O.S.B. (Paris, 1669), II, 168; Gallia Christiana (Paris, 1873), II, xvi.

Dégert, Antoine. "Sulpitius." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 17 Jan. 2022 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14333a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. July 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

Copyright © 2021 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

SOURCE : https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14333a.htm

Le Bugue - Église Saint-Sulpice - Vitrail de saint Sulpice : saint Sulpice guérissant le roi Clotaire II.


January 17

St. Sulpicius II., Surnamed le Debonnaire, Archbishop of Bourges

HE is commemorated on this day in the Roman Martyrology. He was descended of a noble family in Berry, and educated in learning and piety. His large patrimony he gave to the church and poor; and being ordained priest, served king Clothaire II. in quality of almoner and chaplain in his armies; and on a time when he lay dangerously ill, restored him to his health by prayer and fasting. In 624 he succeeded St. Austregesilus, commonly called St. Outrille, in the see of Bourges. He reformed discipline, converted all the Jews in his diocess, and employed his whole time in prayer and laborious functions, chiefly in the instruction of the poor. He died in 644. Among the letters of St. Desiderius of Cahors, we have one which he sent to our saint with this title, “To the holy patriarch, Sulpicius;” 1 and several of our saint to him. 2 The famous monastery which bears his name at Bourges, is said to have been founded by him under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin; it now belongs to the congregation of St. Maur, and is enriched with part of his relics, and with a portion of the blood of St. Stephen, who is the titular saint of the stately cathedral. A bone of one of the arms of our saint, is kept in the famous parochial church in Paris, which is dedicated to God under his invocation. See his ancient life in Bolland. and Mab. sæc. 2. Ben. Gallia Christ. nova, t. 2. p. 18.

Note 1. Apud Canis. Lect. Art. T. 5. and Bibi. Patr. T. 8. l. 1. ep. 12. [back]

Note 2. Ib. l. 2. [back]

Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73).  Volume I: January. The Lives of the Saints.  1866.

SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/210/1/174.html

Le Bugue - Église Saint-Sulpice - Vitrail de saint Sulpice : saint Sulpice distribuant des aumônes.


January 17

St. Sulpicius the Pious, Archbishop of Bourges

THE CHURCH of Bourges in France was founded by St. Ursin, who was sent from Rome to preach the faith in Gaul. St. Gregory of Tours, in his history, places his mission in the middle of the third century, 1 yet in his book on the Glory of Confessors, 2 he tell us, that he was ordained by the disciples of the apostles, and governed many years the church of Bourges, which he had planted. He was interred in a common burial place in a field without the city; but his remains were translated thence by St. Germanus, bishop of Paris, and abbot of St. Symphorian’s, 3 and by Probianus, bishop of Bourges, and deposited in the church of St. Symphorian, now called St. Ursin’s. 4 This saint is honoured in the Roman Martyrology on the 9th of November; at Lisieux and some other places, on the 29th of December. Among the most eminent of his successors, two are called Sulpicius, and both surnamed Pious; the first, who is sometimes called the Severe, sat from the year 584 to 591, and his relics are enshrined in the church of St. Ursin. 5 His name was inserted in the Roman Martyrology by Baronius, on the 29th of January, and occurs in other more ancient calendars. 6

Note 1. S. Gr. Tur. Hist. l. 1. c. 28. [back]

Note 2. L. de Gl. Conf. c. 80. [back]

Note 3. Fortunat. in Vitâ S. German. Paris. [back]

Note 4. Gallia Christ. nova, T. 2. p. 4. [back]

Note 5. See St. Greg. Turon. and Gallia Christ, nov. T. 2. p. 15. [back]

Note 6. See Benedict XIV. Litter. Apost. præfix. Martyr. Rom. s. 46. p. 33. [back]

Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73).  Volume I: January. The Lives of the Saints.  1866

SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/210/1/173.html

Kathedrale Saint-Étienne in Sens im Département Yonne (Burgund/Frankreich), Bleiglasfenster im nördlichen Seitenschiff (baie 33b), aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, aus der Werkstatt von Alfred Gérente; Darstellung: Sulpicius II., Bischof von Bourges


Vitrail de saint Sulpice (cathédrale de Sens).


Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict – Saint Sulpicius, Archbishop

Saint Sulpicius was the second Archbishop of that name. He served King Clothaire II as chaplain and almoner, and when the King was at one time ill, and in danger of death, he was restored to health by the prayers of the Saint. Sulpicius became a Monk of the Benedictine Order, and after the death of Saint Austryes, the Archbishop of Bourges, he succeeded to the vacant See. He was noted in his monastery for his obedience, piety, silence and sobriety; in which virtues he surpassed all the other members of his community.

His eloquence worked wonders among the Jews, numbers of whom were converted to Christianity by his means. The fame of his sanctity having pervaded all Aquitaine, many that were sick were brought to this Saint to be healed; and one day he was called to a boy who had died of hunger. Saint Sulpicius, after examining the corpse, ordered it to be carried to his cell, where, with many prayers and tears, he threw himself over it; and soon the boy awoke as if from sleep, and rose refreshed. Nor was this the only life that was restored by the prayers of the good Archbishop. He quelled a tumult which arose in consequence of the avarice of the Queen, who caused heavy taxes to be imposed on the poor, and, by his exhortations and denunciations, he induced Clothaire to repent. The King laid aside his royal robes, and, with tears and protestations, begged forgiveness for his sins; and, as an expiatory offering to God, he made rich offerings to the Church. Saint Sulpicius died at a good old age, in the year 647, to the great sorrow of his people, and many notable miracles were performed at his tomb.

– text and illustration taken from Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict by Father Aegedius Ranbeck, O.S.B.

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-order-of-saint-benedict-saint-sulpicius-archbishop/

Statue of Saint Sulpice on the right hand side of the high altar. (For the identification of the statue see here.)


Short Lives of the Saints – Saint Sulpicius, Bishop

Entry

Saint Sulpicius was a priest of Gaul in the seventh century, under Austregisilus, bishop of Bourges. The king, Clothaire II, learning of (he zeal and piety which had characterized the life of the servant of God from early youth, appointed Sulpicius the almoner to his own serfs. A miraculous cure having afterwards been wrought in the person of the monarch through the prayers of his holy almoner, Clothaire had the latter elevated to the see of Bourges. In that responsible position, Sulpicius manifested a wonderful zeal, prudence, and exactitude of discipline. His days were spent in apostolic labors, and his nights devoted to prayer. Full of good works, he died on January 17th, 644.

We will as yet,
With God’s help.
Instruct thy mind;
That thou the better mayest
Discover to the skies
The right path.

– from King Alfred’s Metres of Boëithius

Favorite Practice – An active solicitude for the salvation of our neighbor.

MLA Citation

Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly. “Saint Sulpicius, Bishop”. Short Lives of the Saints1910. CatholicSaints.Info. 1 April 2021. Web. 17 January 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/short-lives-of-the-saints-saint-sulpicius-bishop/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/short-lives-of-the-saints-saint-sulpicius-bishop/


Saint-Sulpice. Baie 02 de l'église Saint-Sulpice de Sens-de-Bretagne (35).

Saint-Sulpice. Baie 02 de l'église Saint-Sulpice de Sens-de-Bretagne (35).


San Sulpizio il Pio Vescovo di Bourges

17 gennaio

† Bourges, Francia, 647

Martirologio Romano: A Bourges nella regione dell’Aquitania, in Francia, san Sulpicio, detto il Pio, vescovo, che, dalla corte regia elevato all’episcopato, nulla ebbe più caro che prendersi cura dei poveri.

San Sulpizio II, detto “il Pio”, fu vescovo di Bourges, nella Francia centro-settentrionale. La sua “Vita”, scritta poco dopo la sua morte, narra una versione abbastanza classica della sua gioventù, cioè il passaggio da una vita agiata alla rinuncia ai suoi beni ed alla completa dedizione ai poveri, seguita inoltre d auna condotta molto austera: rigidi digiuni, preghiere notturne, recita quotidiana dell’intero salterio.

Non ci è dato conoscere la data della sua elezione a vescovo, collocabile comunque prima del 627, poiché in tale anno partecipò al concilio di Clichy e consacrò San Desiderio a vescovo di Cahors. I due intrattenevano una regolare corrispondenza epistolare. Fu un pastore amatissimo dal popolo, che egli difendeva dalla tirannia di Lullo, ministro del re Dagoberto. I re merovingi in questo periodo erano infatti tutt’altro che sostenitori della Chiesa, ma Sulpizio, organizzando un digiuno di tre giorni riuscì a convincere il nuovo sovrano, Clodoveo II, a trattare il suo popolo con maggior riguardo.

Qualche anno prima di morire, ormai stremato dalle fatiche, chiese al re di essere sostituito nel ministero episcopale, così da potersi dedicare interamente alla cura dei poveri. Morì nel 647 ed al suo funerale si manifestarono straordinarie scene di lutto, tanto che il clero faticò a concludere la celebrazione delle esequie. Alla sua memoria è dedicato il celebre seminario parigino di Saint-Sulpice.

Autore: Fabio Arduino

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/38185

Maurs - Abbatiale - Vitrail de l'abside - Le Christ entouré de saint Sulpice et saint Césaire, 1845


Den hellige Sulpicius (II) Pius av Bourges ( -647)

Minnedag: 17. januar

Skytshelgen for Bourges; for sulpisianerne og presteseminaret Saint-Sulpice; mot gikt og hudsykdommer

Den hellige Sulpicius (Sulphicus, Sulpitius; fr: Sulpice) ble født på slutten av 500-tallet i en velstående og gammel adelsfamilie i Vatan i Midt-Frankrike. Han ble senere kalt Sulpicius Pius (Débonnaire = den fromme) for å skjelne ham fra en navnebror og forgjenger på bispesetet i Bourges. Han vokste opp ved hoffet til frankerkongen Klotar II (613-28). Han avsto fra å gifte seg og ga sin arv til Kirken, og helt fra ungdommen viet han seg til gode gjerninger.

Han dro til den hellige biskop Austregisilus av Bourges i Aquitania i Frankrike for å få teologisk utdannelse, og i 613 ble han presteviet. Han ble deretter leder for katedralskolen. Kong Klotar II (613-28) fikk høre om hans ry og tilkalte ham, og deretter tjente Sulpicius som almisseutdeler og kapellan for kongens hærer. En gang kongen var alvorlig syk, ga Sulpicius ham helsen tilbake gjennom sine bønner.

Vi vet ikke nøyaktig når han selv ble valgt til biskop av Bourges etter Austregisilus' død; noen kilder sier 615 og andre 624. Han hadde i alle fall denne stillingen til sin død. Han lot bygge en rekke kirker og deltok på bispesynoden i Clichy i utkanten av Paris i 627. Etter å i mellomtiden ha blitt utnevnt til erkebiskop, viet han i 630 den hellige Desiderius (Didier) til biskop av Cahors i Sørvest-Frankrike og hans disippel Remaclus til abbed for benediktinerklosteret Solignac ved Limoges i Midt-Frankrike. Sulpicius skal ha korrespondert regelmessig med Desiderius.

Ved Bourges grunnla Sulpicius klosteret Navarium (lat. navis = skip), som fikk sitt navn fordi det syntes å svømme mellom elva Yèvre og dennes sideelv Auron. Senere fikk klosteret navnet Saint-Sulpice etter sin grunnlegger. Han var elsket av sitt folk for sin gavmildhet og omsorg for de fattige og forfulgte, spesielt dem som var ofre for Lullo, en tyrannisk tjenestemann hos kong Dagobert I (629-39). Dette var på en tid da merovingerkongene langt fra støttet Kirken. Ved å organisere en tre dagers faste, tvang Sulpicius Dagoberts etterfølger Klodvig II (639-57) til å behandle folket rimelig. Mot slutten av sitt liv fikk han kongen til å utnevne en ny biskop for å ta hans plass, slik at han kunne vie mer av sine minskende krefter til omsorgen for de fattige. I 632 overlot han den daglige driften av bispedømmet til sin koadjutor Vulfolnde og trakk seg tilbake til klosteret Navarium, og derfra drev han en energisk misjonering av jøder og kjettere. Det heter at han omvendte alle jødene i bispedømmet.

Han døde den 17. januar 647 og hans begravelse ble ekstraordinær på grunn av den enorme manifestasjonen av folkelig sorg, som gjorde det nesten umulig for prestene å gjennomføre seremonien. Han ble gravlagt i klosteret Navarium, og her ble hans grav skjendet under Den franske revolusjon. En del av relikviene forble i klosteret, mens en annen del kom til kirken Saint-Sulpice i Paris og til sognekirken på hans fødested Vatan. Hans minnedag er 17. januar og hans navn står i Martyrologium Romanum. Hans biografi ble skrevet få år etter hans død. Den forteller om hans asketiske liv med streng faste, bønn det meste av natten og resitasjon av hele psalteret hver dag. I kunsten avbildes han mens han besøker de syke.

Sognepresten ved kirken Saint-Sulpice i Paris, Jean-Jacques Olier (1608-57), grunnla sekularprestkongregasjonen Sulpisianerne (Societas Presbyterorum a Sancto Sulpicio – PSS) for utdannelse av prester. Helt til begynnelsen av 1900-tallet var presteseminaret Saint-Sulpice i Paris den mest fremstående skolen for utdannelse av franske prester. Kongregasjonen er i dag representert i mange land over hele verden. En armrelikvie av Sulpicius oppbevares i Saint-Sulpice i Paris. I Bourges feires hans translasjonsfest den 27. august.

En tidligere hellig biskop av Bourges ved navn Sulpicius (I) (død 591) æres også som hellig med minnedag 29. januar.

Kilder: Attwater (dk), Attwater/John, Attwater/Cumming, Farmer, Butler (I), Benedictines, Bunson, Schauber/Schindler, Gorys, Dammer/Adam, KIR, CE, CSO, Infocatho, Heiligenlexikon - Kompilasjon og oversettelse: p. Per Einar Odden - Sist oppdatert: 2004-03-06 11:43

SOURCE : http://www.katolsk.no/biografier/historisk/s2bourges

Vitrail de Jean Besseyrias représentant saint Sulpice, église de Saint-Sulpice-de-Mareuil, commune nouvelle de Mareuil en Périgord, Dordogne, France.


Voir aussi : https://www.touteslesprieres.com/priere-1539-priere-a-saint-sulpice-le-pieux-contre-les-troubles-de-croissance.html

http://www.histoire-saint-sulpice-oise.fr/Saint-Sulpice-le-Pieux-le-debonnaire_v1a.html

https://svetniki.org/sveti-sulpicij-skof/