Saint of the Day – 24 September – St Lupus (6th Century) Bishop of Lyon, Monk and Hermit. Also known as – Lupe, Lupo, Loup the Name means “Wolf.”
St Jerome’s Martyrology mentions Lupus on 24 September; the current Diocesan Order of Lyon lists him on 25 September.
Around 528, the Life of Saint Lubin, Bishop of Chartres, mentions him as an illustrious Monk who led a Hermit’s life on Ile-Barbe located just above Lyon.
On 7 May 538, he presided as the Archbishop of Lyon at the 3rd Council of Orleans.
He died well before 28 October 549, the date on which his second successor, Sacerdos, presided over the 5th Council of Orleans, while Lupus’ immediate successor, Leontius, had governed the Church of Lyon for only two years.
Leidrat, Archbishop of Lyon (798-816), writing to Charlemagne, mentions Lupus along with two more Lyonnais Archbishops, Saints Eucherius and Genesius, in connection with the Monastery of Ile-Barbe.
On 20 September 1620, Cardinal de Marquemont, Archbishop of Lyon, proceeded with the Consecration of the restored Church of Ile-Barbe which retained its ancient titular Saints, Saints Martin and our Lupus.
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