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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 10, 26. Of the Death of Bishops Ragnemod and Sulpicius
Ragnemod, bishop of Paris, died.1 His brother, the priest Faramod, was candidate for his bishopric, but a certain merchant named Eusebius, a Syrian by race, offered many gifts for the post and was appointed to succeed. The episcopate once his, he dismissed the whole household of his predecessor, appointing Syrians of his own kin to serve in the bishop’s house. Sulpicius, bishop of Bourges, also died;2 Eustasius, deacon of Autun, obtained his see.
Notes
- A. D. 591; cf. V. 7, 12 (18), 32; VI. 19 (27); VII. 4, 16; IX. 6; X. 14.
- Cf. VI. 39.