Saint Bologne of Grand

Her nurse was a Christian, and she made it her duty to use her freedom to raise the child according to the law of Jesus Christ. However, Julian had been proclaimed Caesar by his father, the Emperor Constantius, and charged in this capacity with the general command of the army of the Gauls; among his lieutenants was a pagan named Ptolemy. This officer came to camp on the Marne, at a Roman station called Darthé. Having had the occasion to see Bologne, he was smitten by her beauty and employed both promises and threats to seduc e the saint of Jesus Christ. sainte époque de Jésus-Christ Virgin and martyr of the 4th century from the Vosges. Bologne struggled with the grace of God against Ptolemy; she despised the false goods he promised her, and she braved his anger. The lieutenant o f Julian the Apo Julien l'Apostat Roman emperor and persecutor of Christians. state, despairing of overcoming the virgin's resistance, had her tied to a tree; she was whipped, her teeth were broken with a stone, and she was subjected to a more cruel outrage by being stripped of her clothes to be suspended on a rack and to have her flanks burned with flaming torches. Bologne was then locked in a barrel bristling with iron spikes on the inside, and she was thrown from the top of the mountain of Roocourt. The barrel stopped in the meadow on the banks of the Marne, and as the virgin was still breathing, Ptolemy had her head cut off.

Before th e Revolution of Révolution de 93 Period during which the saint's relics were hidden and lost. '93, there was a commemorative cross at the spot where the Martyr's barrel stopped, and another in the place where her head fell. Christians gathered the body of Bologne and gave it burial a few hundred meters from Darthé. When the village was rebuilt, after its destruction in the wars of Julian, it grouped itself around the tomb and took the name of Saint Bologne herself.

In 1413, Louis II, Cardinal of Bar Louis II, cardinal de Bar Cardinal who authenticated the saint's relics in 1413. , recognized the sacred remains and solemnly placed them in a reliquary. The Revolution threw the bones of the patron saint of Bologne into the street. But they were preciously collected and replaced in another reliquary, with the old strip of parchment where it is read that a plenary indulgence is granted to those who visit the church and the relics of the Saint, from the first to the second Vespers of her feast day.

Excerpt from the Saints of the Haute-Marne, by Father Gudard.