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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 1, 45. Of the Holy Hillidius, the Bishop
On the death of Legonus the holy Hillidius succeeded, a man eminent in sanctity and excellent in virtue, who shone with such sanctity that his fame reached even foreign lands. Whence it befell that he was summoned by the emperor1 to Trèves and freed his daughter from an unclean spirit; all which I have recounted in the book in which I have written concerning his life.2 He is said to have lived to a ripe old age, and to have passed to Christ, having finished the course of this life full of days and of good works; he was buried in a crypt in the outskirts of Clermont. He had an archdeacon well named Justus, who, after completing the journey of this life with good works, was buried in the same tomb with his master. After the passing of the blessed confessor Hillidius, so many miracles were manifested at his glorious tomb that the tale of all might neither be recorded nor remembered. His successor was the holy Nepotianus.
Notes
- Maximus (383–388).
- V. P., ch. ii.