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of the mission followors, and plundered and burned a poem on the life of St. Martin and another poem on
the missions of Santiago, San Jos(?, Santa Rosa, and, the miraculous euro of his grandson by St. Martin;
La Paz. For some time there was danger of an out- two named .Aiifhcdius; and l/upus, imct, rlictorician,
break throughout the wliole peninsula, but order was and ni:itlicnialician. Two provincial .synods of Hor-
rcstored and mission work resumed. From 1742 to deaux were held at I'crigucux in VM'iS and 1S.')I). 1748, a series of epidemic visitations, probably small- The history of the church of St. Front of P6ri-
Eox, reduced them to one-sixth of their former num- gueux gave rise to numerous discussions between
er,' and two of the four missions were abandoned, archa'ologists. F(51ix de Verneihl claims that St
in 1769 another pestilential visitation wasted their
numbers and jjrovoked another outbreak, which was
suppres.sed by Governor Gonzalez in person. Hy 1772
less than 400 remained alive and these were hopelessly
Front was a copy of St. Mark's (Venice); Quicherat,
that it was copied from the church of the Holy Apos-
tles of Constantinople. M. Brutails is of opinion that
if St. Front reveals an imitation of Oriental art, the
diseased from contact with the pearl fishers and Span- construction differs altogether from Byzantine meth-
ish soldiery. Missions were continued at San Jos6 and ods. The dates 9S4-1047, often given for the erection
La Paz (Todos Santos) under Franciscan and Domin- of St. Front, he considers too early; he thinks that
ican auspices into the last century, but the tribe is long the present church of St. Front was built about 1120-
since extinct. 1173, in imitation of a foreign monument by a native
For bibliography see Gdaicuri Indians. local school of architecture which erected the other
James Mooney. domed buildings in the south-west of France.
St. Vincent de Paul was ordained jiriest 2.3 Sept.,
Perigueux, Diocese of (Petrocoricensis), com- 1600, by Bourdeilles, Bishop of Periguenx. Fenelon
prises the Heiiartiuent of Dordogne and is suffragan (q. v.), born in the Diocese of Sarlat, was titular of the
to the .\nhliislio|irie of Bordeaux. By the Concordat priory of Carinac which his uncle Francois de Salignac,
of 1801, the Dio-
ceses of Perigueux
and Sarlat were
united to the See of
Angouleme; in 1821
Perigueux was again
the seat of a bishopric
which united the for-
mer Dioceses of Peri-
gueux and Sarlat, ex-
cepting 60 parishes
given to Agen and
Angouleme and 49
parishes which had
once belonged to
Limoges, Cahors, and
Tulle.
The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first Bishop of Perigueux ; St. Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later
The Cathedral, Perigueux
Bishop of Sarlat, had
given him. The
Church of Perigueux
is the only one in
France to celebrate
the feast of Charle-
magne (28 Jan.).
This Church has a
special veneration for
Saints Silanus, Sever-
inus, Severianus, and
Frontasius, martyrs,
disciplesof St. Front;
St. Mundana, mar-
tyr, mother of St.
Sacerdos, Bishop of
I.iinoges (sixth cen-
tuiv); the Benedic-
tine St. Cyprian, Ab-
bot of the Perigueux
niona.stery (sixth cen-
tury) ; St. Sour
(Sorus), a hermit
who died about 580,
foimder of the Abbey
traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy of Terrasson. The Carmelite monk St . Peter Thomas
(q. v.). Subsequent biographies, which appeared be- (1305-1366), a native of Salles in the Diocese and Pa-
tween the tenth and thirteenth centuries, make St. triarch of Constantinople, died in Cyprus during the
Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, crusade which for a short time gave Alexandria to the
thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events Christians. we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a The Diocese of Perigueux has a remarkable relic
Bishop of Perigueux, Paternus, was deposed for her-
esy about 361. Among the bishops are: Raymond V,
Cardinal of Pons (1220-1223); the future cardinal.
Blessed Klie de Bourdeilles (1447-1468); Claude de
Longwy, Cardinal of Givry (1540-1547); the future
Canlinal Gousset (1836-1840), subsequently Arch-
bishop of Reims
Pierre Raoul or Gerard, a parish priest in Perigord,
brought back after the first crusade the Holy Shroud
of Christ, entrusted to him by a dying ecclesiastic of
Le Puy, who himself obtained this relic from the legate
Adh6mar de Monteil. The Cistercians who founded
the monastery of Cadouin in 1115 had a church
erected in honour of this relic; its cloister, a marvel of
The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed art, was consecrated in 1154. Notwitlistandmg the
under the patronage of St. Sacerdos, Bishop of Li- strict rules of the order interdicting the use of gold
moges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin vases, the Chapter of CIteaux permitted a gold reli-
the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pil- quary for the Holy Shroud. As early as 1140, the
grimage and because of their munificence deserved to Holy See instituted a confraternity in honour of the
be called "founders" in a Bull of Eugene 111 (1153). Holy Shroud, tliought to be tlie oldest m France. St.
About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform
the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by
John XXII, 13 Jan., 1318.
Among the bishops of Sarlat were Cardinal Nicolas de Gaddi (1535-1546) and the preacher Jean de Lin- gendes (1639-1650).
Vesuna (subsequently P6rigucux) was in the fifth centurj' the site of an important school ; it had distin- guished professors: Paulinus the rhetorician; his son Paulinus the poet, who wrote (between 465 and 470)
Louis in 1270 venerated tlie Holy Shroud at Cadouin;
Charles VI had it exposed for one month in Paris;
Louis XI founded at Cadouin in 1482 a daily Mass.
Bishop Lingendes in 1444 held an official investigation
which asserted the authenticity of the relic. The
other chief places of [lilgrimage are: at Belves, a
shrine of Notre-Danie de Capelou, mentioned in 1153
in a Bull of Eugene III. Notre-Dame de Fontpey-
rines; Notre-Dame du Grand Pouvoir at P6rigueux,
dating back to 1673; Notre-Dame des Vertus, dating
