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Alchas of Toul

Alchas of Toul

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Saint Alchas (fl. 420) was the third bishop of Toul.[1][2][3] He is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

He is known only from a mention of his name in the manuscript of Adso[4] and in the epitaphs of the bishops of Toul. He is dated to the year 420 and in the succession of the bishops comes after Saint Amon and before Saint Gelsimus.

References

  1. [1]
    A. D. Thierry, Histoire de la ville de Toul et de ses évêques, Paris, 1841, p. 35-37
  2. [2]
    J.P. Migne, Nouvelle encyclopédie théologique, vol. 9, 1851, p. 423-424.
  3. [3]
    abbé Pierre-Etienne Guillaume, Histoire du diocèse de Toul et de celui de Nancy, vol. 1, Nancy, 1867, p. 105.
  4. [4]
    in either Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis, vol 45, ed. D. Verhelst (Turnhout, 1976) or Migne's Patrologia Latina, CXXXVI, 589-60


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