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History of the Franks

St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927

Book 5, 27. Of the Expulsion of Salonius and Sagittarius

In the fourth year of Childebert,¹ which was the eighteenth of Guntram and of Chilperic, a council was held by command of Guntram at Chalon-sur-Saône. Different matters having been first discussed, the old charges against bishops Salonius and Sagittarius² were renewed. Various accusations were brought against them, not of adultery alone, but even of murder. As, however, the bishops held that these offences might be purged by penitence, they were further charged with lèse-majesté and treason to their country. They were therefore stripped of their episcopal rank, and imprisoned under a guard in the church of the blessed Marcellus. Thence they managed to escape, and roamed as wanderers through divers regions, while others were appointed bishops of their cities.

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