Restitutus

Saint Restitutus was, according to tradition, the first bishop of Tricastinum (now Saint-⁠Paul-⁠Trois-⁠Châteaux in France), a see abolished in 1801. He is celebrated on 7 November (new style), but does not appear in the Roman Martyrology. According to a fifteenth-⁠century French legend, he was the man born blind who was healed by the Lord in the Gospel of John (chapter 9), hence the name Restitutus, from the Latin for "restoration". The legend says he sailed from Palestine to the south of France with Mary Magdalene, Lazarus, Martha and others. Legends of this kind seem to have developed in the eleventh century, to link the earliest saints of France with figures of Scripture.

He is venerated in the dioceses of Saint-⁠Paul-⁠Trois-⁠Châteaux, Aix-⁠en-⁠Provence, Valence and Viviers. His relics, kept in the crypt of a ninth-⁠century church, were destroyed in 1561 by the Huguenots; other sources say they are at Orléans. He is venerated in the Catholic Church.