Saint Rusticus

Who was Saint Rusticus?

Saint Rusticus was the Archbishop of Lyon, since the year of 494, the successor of Saint Lupicinus of Lyon. Later canonized, his Feast Day is 25 April. He was the son of Aquilinus, Nobleman at Lyon schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris, who was a Vicarius of a Province in Gaul under the father of Sidonius Apollinaris between 423 and 448, and wife Tullia, and the great-grandson of Decimus Rusticus and wife Artemia, and also of Saint Eucherius and wife Gallia.

He was also the brother of St. Viventiolus.

Married before 480 to a daughter of Ruricius, Bishop of Limoges and wife Ommance, they were the parents of three children:

St. Sacerdos, Archbishop of Lyon

Leontius, Archbishop of Lyon

Artemia, the wife of Florentinus, born in 485, a Senator, who were the parents of:

Gondulf of Provence, Duke, Bishop of Metz

Arthemia, wife of Munderic Vitrey, Pretender of Austrasia

St. Nicetius, Archbishop of Lyon