Saint Lupus, Bishop
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Posted on Wednesday July 24, 2024 at 12:00AM in Saints
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The Guardianship of God:
There is no protection comparable with that of God and his Saints; the
life of St. Lupus, bishop of Troyes, is about to afford us an example
thereof. Lupus had been raised, despite all opposition on his part, and
by reason of his sanctity, to the see of Troyes. He had been directed by
the bishop of Gaul to proceed in company with St. Germain of Auxerre to
England, in order to combat the Pelagian heresy,
and had the glory of entirely uprooting it there. Having returned to
his diocese, he was surprised in the midst of his apostolic labors by
the invasion of Attila. Thrace, Syria, and Greece, had been laid waste;
Rheims, Cambrai, Besancon, Auxerre, and Langres were merely heaps of
ruin; the turn of the town of Troyes had come. Lupus prayed himself, and
got his people to pray during three days and three nights; he placed
his flock under the protection of God, and went forward to meet the
ferocious conqueror. "I am the scourge of God!" said the king of the
Huns, "and am come to destroy you." "Beware!" replied the bishop; "God
crushes the instruments He has made use of." Attila, astonished at such
boldness, turned his army aside from its onward march, and was defeated
in the plains of Mery. St. Lupus died in 478.
Moral reflection: "God is wonderful in His saints, and will give power and strength to His people." (Psalm LXVII. 36)
Source: Pictorial half hours with the saints, Abbe Auguste François Lecanu
