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St. Mitrius of Aix

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St. Mitrius of Aix

Martyr

Mitrius is remembered as a martyr at Aix in Provence and the city’s principal patron. Butler cites Gregory of Tours while warning that no authentic acts of his suffering survive.

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What patronage is associated with St. Mitrius of Aix?

St. Mitrius of Aix is traditionally honored as a principal patron of Aix in Provence.

Butler explicitly names Mitrius as principal patron of the city. The same notice warns that no authentic acts of his martyrdom survive. The local patronage is recorded separately from the limits of the biographical evidence.

Historical source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 13, “St Mitrius, Martyr,” p. 300. Read the source

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Earlier witness named: St Gregory of Tours
Butler cites Gregory’s remembrance of Mitrius while expressly distinguishing it from the detailed martyr acts that were unavailable.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 13, “St Mitrius, Martyr,” p. 300.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 13, “St Mitrius, Martyr,” p. 300.

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ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 13, “St Mitrius, Martyr,” p. 300.

Mitrius is remembered as an ancient martyr at Aix in Provence. Butler places his suffering in the persecution under Diocletian and points to the honourable remembrance of him in St. Gregory of Tours.

The brief notice praises his constancy through suffering but does not supply a reliable detailed trial narrative. Butler expressly says that no authentic acts of his martyrdom had reached his time.

He also records Mitrius as principal patron of Aix. The short account preserves that local devotion and the older witness to the martyr, without adding speeches, a detailed manner of execution or an exact death date that the cited passage does not establish.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

Butler’s notice is brief and explicitly states that no authentic martyr acts survive. The patronage concerns Aix in Provence; no wider regional patronage is inferred.

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