(A.D. 646.)
[Roman Martyrology. Saragossa Martyrology on March 18th.
Authority:--The letters of his great friend S. Isidore.]
S. Braulio is traditionally said to have been divinely designated for
the episcopate, when the clergy and people were assembled to elect to
the vacant see of Saragossa, by the appearance of a tongue of flame on
his head. He was an intimate friend of S. Isidore, bishop of Hispalis,
or Seville, and he has been by some writers erroneously called the
brother of Isidore and Leander. S. Braulio sat in the 5th and 6th
Councils of Toledo. After having held the bishopric twenty years he
died. The day of his death was spent in incessant psalmody. A pleasing
modern legend, which the Bollandists have shown to be without ancient
authority, tells that he heard angelic voices chant in choir, "Arise,
my friend, and come away," to which he replied, "Behold, here am I."