May 05

Saint Britton of Trier

May 5th IV century

Name
Britton (Masculino)
Dead
in Tréveris, in current Belgium
Celebration
May 5th
In Trier, in the Belgium Gaul, St. Britton, Bishop, who defended his flock of Priscilian's errors, but trying in vain to stop, along with the bishops [saint Ambrosius de Milan], and [saint Martin of Tours], the violence of those who claimed the execution of Priscilian and his followers. Roman martyrology