(A.D. 591.)
[There is great confusion caused by there having been so many
archbishops of this name. There was a Sulpicius the Pious,
Archbishop of Bourges about 644; commemorated on Jan. 17th. There
was also Sulpicius Severus, the disciple of S. Martin, whose life
Butler gives on this day, and who is the famous historian, but
there seems to be no authority for numbering him with the Saints.
Butler also says that there were four Sulpicii, Archbishops of
Bourges, but this seems to be a mistake, for Bollandus gives only
two, Sulpicius the Pious and Sulpicius Severus.]
Little of the acts of this Saint is known, and he is here mentioned
solely to enable the reader to distinguish the Saint of this name from
the historian, and also from his successor Sulpicius the Pious.