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Saint Autor of Metz

detail of a painting of Saint Autor of Metz, 1460, artist unknown; swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Adinctor
Auctor
Auteur
Autore

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Tradition says that Autor was a cobbler, known in the city of Metz, France for his holiness. When Bishop Valerius was murdered, local people approached Autor to take the office. He initially refused, but while he was arguing with the people, he dropped his leather awl; it landed point down, punched a small hole in the dirt, and a spring of fresh water erupted from it. Both he and the townspeople knew a sign when they saw it, and he became the 13th bishop of Metz, serving for 29 years in the mid-5th century. Legend says that he was saved from capture by invading Huns when all those who came for him were struck blind; their vision returned when they freed Autor and he prayed for them.

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relics enshrined in the monastery of Marmoutier in 830

legend says that during the procession to enshrine his bones, they proved immovable until those of Saint Celeste of Metz, which were being taken to Marmoutier, as well, were carried at the head of the procession and properly enshrined
Autore’s relics were stolen, mixed with other bones, and thrown away by invading Protestants in the Peasant’s War in 1525