Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. The Archbishop of Rouen bears the title of Primate of Normandy. Rouen, chief city of the Secunda Provincia Lugdunensis under Constantine, and later of Neustria, has been since the capital of Normandy and residence of the dukes. The episcopal catalogues of the ninth and tenth centuries and the "Liber Eburneus" of the cathedral of Rouen, which extends to , indicate St.
Ouen which comes down to and the episcopal lists dating from the twelfth century mention the episcopate of a certain Nicasius Nicaise as antedating that of St. The legend of this Nicaise, based on Hilduin, makes him and his two companions, Quirinus and Scubiculus, disciples of St.
Denis who came from Rome to Normandy but suffered martyrdom at their arrival on the banks of the river Epte. It was under the episcopate of William Bonne Ame the Good that the name of Nicaise was placed at the head of the episcopal lists of Rouen.
A number of saints were the successors of St. Avitianus about ; St. Severus; St. Paulinus of Nola and St. Martin, also for going in to England where he worked zealously for the conversion of the English people; his treatise "De Laude Sanctorum" is a strong plea in favour of the devotion to relics ; Innocent I commissioned him in to make known in Gaul the "Liber Regularum", which contains urgent instructions for ecclesiastical celibacy , for the respect due to the hierarchy , and Roman supremacy; St.
Innocent; St. Evodius about ; St. Goldardus , brother of St. Medardus , one of the assistants at the baptism and coronation of Clovis ; St. Flavius; St. Pretextatus , exiled in by order of King Chilperic, was reinstated in the diocese in , and stabbed before the altar in by order of Fredegonde; St. Romanus former chancellor of Clotaire II; legend relates how he delivered the environs of Rouen from a monster called Gargouille, having had him captured by a liberated prisoner in commemoration of St.
