Sulpitius II Pius of Bourges

Sulpitius II Pius of Bourges (Sulpitius de Vrome; Supplitius). Died 647 in Bourges; bishop of Bourges from 624 onwards.

Feast: 17 January.

Patrocinium

Diest, Sulpitiuskerk

Chants

Parts of his office are preserved in some Tongerlo fragments: AAT II 121 (fly leaf) and AAT II 379 (cover), belonging to a 15th-16th century antiphoner.

In France some chants for Sulpicius are preserved in the antiphoner F-Pm 386, borrowed from an office that seems a pastiche. At present it is not clear if these chants and those from Diest are taken from the same office:
[Ad primas vesperas ad Magn. ant.] Magna vox laude sonora te decet per omnia quo poli chorea gaudet acta tali compare terra plaudat et resultat digna tanta presule o sacer sulpici confessor nostra vota suscipe (2nd mode) (text and melody are from an antiphon for Lambertus, LMLO LA-31)
[Ad secunda vesperas ant.] Sacra recensentes sollemnia egregii presulis et confessoris sulpicii cernua dominum devocione laudemus qui nobis eximia largiri dignatus est patricinia (4th mode; ps. Dixit dominus)
[Ad secundas vesperas ad Magn. ant.] Confessor xpisti sulpicius hodie exultat in celis et laudatur in terris nos ubique exoramus devotissime ut ad convivia ubi epulatur epulemur tu domine da nobis eius consortium in sempiternum (1st mode)

A Mass (no proper chants) is in B-TONGLna V 326.

Literature

Saints in Brabant, pp. 14-20, 35-36.

Sulpitius is not mentioned in LMLO.

See for mss of St Sulpicius in Bourges: Leroquais: Les bréviaires ... t. V, index, pp. 303-304.