Augia
Acta Sanctorum, May 14
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ON SAINT AUGIA

MARTYR AT APT-JULIA IN GAUL.

[Commentary]

Augia, Martyr at Apt-Julia in Gaul (S.)

G. H.

Apt-Julia, an ancient city of Narbonese Gaul
and Episcopal, in the present Provence on the Coulon
river, situated midway between Aix-en-Provence its Metropolis
toward the West, and Avignon toward
the East, besides various Bishops of its Church
ascribed to the Saints, and S. Martin or Martian
the Abbot, and the Divine Elzear and Delphine,
has several others: but their bodies, almost unknown, it possesses in
the lower crypt of the high altar of the Church. [The memory in Saussay,] The name of one sets forth
Saussay in the supplement to the Gallican Martyrology on
this XIV of May in these words: At Apt-Julia of the Vulgientes
under the Metropolitan Chair of Aix, is the birthday of S.
Augia the Martyr, laureled for the law and glory of Christ, in the supreme
contest which she underwent: whose sacred
body, long since placed in the high temple of Apt,
has there a perpetual veneration; some particles
nevertheless having been plucked from the precious clod, which
at Aix-en-Provence with great honor are preserved placed again.
Philip Ferrarius in the Catalogue of the Saints who
are not in the Roman Martyrology, [and Ferrarius.] on this same XIV
of May has these things: At Apt in Gaul, of S. Augia the Martyr,
and in the Notes adds: From the records of the Church of Apt, where
her body is placed, and it has a great veneration.
There are extant her MS. monuments, from which
it is clear that she was of the Salebrona or Sabrona family.
Others think she rests at Aix-en-Provence. Thus far
we could not attain more: nor do we think it worthwhile
to inquire more laboriously into MS. monuments of this kind: for who
would esteem very ancient or worthy of consideration
those things, by which the Saint is inserted into the Salebrona family,
verisimilarly having suffered under the heathen Emperors,
and so not a few centuries earlier than those nations occupied
the Gauls, from whom the name Salebrona first
to some place, then to the family possessing it began to be?
which last ought not to be believed done before the XI
century.
