Saint Gebuin

Jubin, placed at the head of an illustrious church, regarded it as one of his duties to preserve its privileges. He therefore add ressed himself to saint Grégoire VII Pope during whose pontificate Saint Gausbert died. Saint Gregory VII, who then occupied the Holy See, and asked him for the confirmation of his right of primacy. The Pope granted it to him over the provinces of Sens, Tours, and Rouen. It was perhaps in Rome itself that he obtained this favor; for he made a journey to this capital of the Christian world with several canons of his church who had been excommunicated for having abandoned the common life and shared among themselves the goods that belonged to their chapter. Jubin received this confirmatory bull in 1079. His episcopate did not have a long duration; he nevertheless had the time to call and establish in Lyon, in a place then named Sainte-Marie-aux-Bois a nd since the Platière, the regul chanoines réguliers de Saint-Ruf Religious order established in Lyon by Gébuin. ar canons of Saint-Ruf, who, until the time of their destruction, preserved this church which had since become a priory. Soon after, he was struck by a grave infirmity, which he bore with invincible patience, and which eventually caused his death. According to the most probable opinion, he ended his career in the year 1082, leaving behind him to his people a high regard for his piety and his charity for the poor. His bod y was buried in the ch église de Saint-Irénée Burial place of Saint Gebuin in Lyon. urch of Saint-Irénée, in Lyon, and an altar was raised over his sepulcher which was dedicated to him. The diocese that he governed honors him with a public cult; and until the Revolution, his tomb was constantly visited by a large number of the faithful, who sought his help in their infirmities, and especially in the sad disease of the stone to which Saint Jubin had been subject.

When the Calvinists seized Lyon in 1562, they took extreme care to destroy all monuments of Catholicism, and the church of Saint-Irénée was not spared. They broke several tombs there and profaned the relics of the holy martyrs that were kept there. But they did not touch the tomb of Saint Jubin, because it was placed at the bac saint Jubin Bishop of Lyon during the translation of the relics. k of a very narrow chapel and embedded so deeply in the wall that it would have been necessary to demolish a part of it to be able to open it. The body of the Saint was therefore left intact; and it remained so until 1824, at which time, significant works for the enlargement of the church having been planned, M. Durand, parish priest, obtained permis sion from M. Durand Parish priest of Saint-Irénée who had the tomb opened in 1824. the ecclesiastical authority to transfer these precious relics elsewhere. On October 24 of the same year, the tomb was opened in the presence of a vicar general of Lyon. The cement that bound the stones was intact: all the bones were found there, and even pieces of a black fabric that had undoubtedly served to wrap the remains of the servant of God. A bone from an arm was set aside for the refuge community of Saint-Michel in Lyon, and another from a leg for the metropolitan church. Among the dust, at the bottom of the monument, were found the pectoral cross and the ring of the holy Pontiff. His relics, having been placed in a reliquary, were, on May 9, 1826, carried in procession with great solemnity to the church of Saint-Jean in Lyon, then brought back to that of Saint-Irénée, and replaced in the old tomb which is today entirely covered in white marble. Since that time, several miraculous healings have been obtained through the intercession of Saint Jubin. He is the patron of the chapter of Langres.

Taken from the Gallia christiana nova, vol. IV; from the Breviary of Lyon, 1769 and 1865 editions; from the work entitled: Le Clergé de France, by Abbé Hugues Butkens, vol. IV, and from the notice on Saint Jubin, by M. Durand, parish priest of Saint-Irénée in Lyon, published in that city in 1827, 1 vol. in-12.

Drawn from the Gallia christiana nova, vol. IV; from the Breviary of Lyon, 1769 and 1865 editions; from the work entitled: Le Clergé de France, by Abbé Hugues Butkens, vol. IV, and from the notice on Saint Jubin, by Mr. Durand, parish priest of Saint-Irénée in Lyon, published in that city in 1827, 1 vol. in-12.