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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 1, 33. Of the Martyrs of Auvergne
Near this city rest the martyrs Liminius and Antolianus. Here, too, Cassius and Victorinus, joined as brothers in the love of Christ, pouring out their blood, together won the kingdom of heaven. They of old time relate that Victorinus was slave to a priest of the above-named temple. He often went into the quarter called the quarter of the Christians to persecute the inhabitants, and there found Cassius, the Christian, whose preaching and miracles so moved him that he believed on Christ. He abandoned the wretched state of heathendom, was consecrated by baptism, and became a famous worker of miracles. Not long after, as I have said, these two, who had been companions upon earth, passed therefrom together into the kingdom of heaven.