# Privatus, Bishop Of The Church Of Jesus Christ At Gevauldan, Beaten To Death With Sticks For The True Faith, About A. D. 274.

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When Chorus, the king of the Germans, in the
time of Valerian, and Aurelian, yea, up to the time
of Probus, devastated France, he found among
other martyrs who dwelt separated from men in
deserts and mountains, a certain pious man, called
Privatus, Bishop of the church at Gevauldan. This
man, sojourning in the mountains, fasting and
praying, was taken prisoner by the Germans, and
because he, as behooves a good shepherd, would
not deliver his lambs into the claws of the wolves,
by himself sacrificing to Satan, which he would in
no wise do, he was beaten with sticks by them for
a very long time, till they left him lie for dead; in
consequence of which treatment he also died a few
days after. This happened, as some have supposed,
under Valerian and Gallien, but in reality, under
Aurelian. Compare A. Mell., 1st book, fol. 89,
col. 1, from Greg. Turon. Hist., lib. 1, cap. 34,
with Introduction, fol. 41, col. 2, where he is called
Privatus, Bishop of Gablen.



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