6 April 861 A.D. Prudentius of Troyes—Learned Gallican Bishop
6 April 861 A.D. Prudentius of Troyes—Learned Gallican Bishop Butler, Alban. “St. Prudentius, Bishop of Troyes, Confessor.” The Lives of the Saints, Volume IV: April. 1866. http://www.bartleby.com/210/4/065.html . Accessed 23 Feb 2015. April 6 St. Prudentius, Bishop of Troyes, Confessor HE was by birth a Spaniard; but fled from the swords of the infidels into France, where in 840, or 845, he was chosen bishop of Troyes. He was one of the most learned prelates of the Gallican church, and was consulted as an oracle. By his sermon on the Virgin St. Maura, we are informed that, besides his other functions and assiduity in preaching, he employed himself in hearing confessions, and in administering the sacraments of the holy eucharist and extreme unction. In his time Gotescalc, a wandering monk of the abbey of Orbasis, in the diocess of Soissons, advanced, in his travels, the errors of pred...