Lupus of Chalon-⁠sur-⁠Saône

Lupus of Chalon-⁠sur-⁠Saône was bishop of Chalon at the beginning of the seventh century. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church.

He was born at Boyer, at the end of the sixth century, into the family of a rich landowner. He shepherded Chalon in the first years of the seventh century and reposed in the 610s. Very merciful, he gave his lands, and the villages of Alleriot, Damerey and Montagny, to the cathedral of Saint Vincent and its chapter. He visited prisoners and pleaded with the judges for their pardon. He cared for the education of the clergy and founded a school in which they could study Holy Scripture. In June 601, like other bishops of Gaul, he received a letter from Pope Gregory the Great concerning the monks sent to England to Augustine of Canterbury.

Tradition attributes a few miracles to him: in a time of drought he is said to have made water spring forth by planting his staff in the ground, at the place of the present Saint-⁠Loup spring at Boyer, thought to heal fevers and pains; at a fire in Chalon he is said to have rushed upon the flames, and the fire went out; and his coffin is said to have opened the doors of a prison as it passed. It is reported that Pope John VIII proclaimed him a saint in 877. The saint rests in the cathedral of Saint Vincent at Chalon-⁠sur-⁠Saône. The church of Boyer, of which he is patron, keeps a fragment of his upper arm bone, and a nearby commune, Saint-⁠Loup-⁠de-⁠Varennes, bears his name. His feast is 27 January, according to the Western calendar (new style).