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History of the Franks
St Gregory of Tours, tr. Dalton, 1927
Book 3, 17. Of the Bishops of Tours
Bishop Dinifius now died in the city of Tours, and Ommatius presided for three years over the see; he had been consecrated by the command of that king, Chlodomer, of whom I have already made mention. He, too, dying, Leo held the office for seven months; he was a man of great activity and skilled in the art of working in wood. After his decease the two bishops Theodore and Proculus, who came from the country of Burgundy at the bidding of Queen Clotild, governed the church of Tours; they were succeeded by Francilio, a man of senatorial family. In the third year of his episcopate, when the night of the Lord’s nativity shed its gracious light upon the people, he commanded a draught to be served him before he went down to vigils. A servant at once came and handed him a cup. But as soon as he had drained it he gave up the ghost; it was suspected that he had been poisoned. After his death Injuriosus, a citizen of Tours, obtained the episcopal throne as the fifteenth bishop after the blessed Martin.