(END OF 4TH CENTURY.)
[Cologne, Belgian, Treves Martyrologies. The accounts we have of him
are not of any great antiquity.]
S. Castor was ordained first deacon, and then priest, by S. Maximus,
second bishop of Trèves. He was appointed to preach the Gospel at
Carden, on the Moselle, where is a church founded by him. A popular
legend represents him as having asked of a boat which was going up the
river with a load of salt, a small quantity of that useful condiment,
which was however refused him; but when the vessel was shortly after
nigh sinking in a storm, Castor saved it by making the sign of the
cross over the tossing waves. His body, or part of it, was translated
in after years to Coblenz.