. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . his companions Maxianusand Julianus, as the founder of Christianity in thatplace. The martjTdom of St. Romana under Dio-cletian, of St. Just during the atrocious persecutionby the legendary Rictiovarus (about 410), of , daughter of the King of Scotland, who,about , preferred to die rather than follow herfianc^, render the primitive Church of Beauvaisillustrious. The exact date of the foundation of theepiscopal see is obscure, but we know


. The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church . his companions Maxianusand Julianus, as the founder of Christianity in thatplace. The martjTdom of St. Romana under Dio-cletian, of St. Just during the atrocious persecutionby the legendary Rictiovarus (about 410), of , daughter of the King of Scotland, who,about , preferred to die rather than follow herfianc^, render the primitive Church of Beauvaisillustrious. The exact date of the foundation of theepiscopal see is obscure, but we know that the bishopwho occupied it from 632 to 660 was the thirteenth BEAXTVAIS 378 BEAUVAIS incumbent. Among its bishops Beauvais counts Odo(860-8S1), charsedby Nicholas I in 867 to_ answer■n-ith Hincmar the grievances of Photius; Gui (1063-85), who founded St. Quentin of Beauvais, the greatschool of theologj; Pierre Cauchon (1420-32), iden-tified with the condemnation of Joan of Arc; JeanJuvenal des Irsins (1433-44), author of the Chron-icle of Charles VI; Cardinal Odet de Chatillon (1535-62), nephew of Cohgny, who turned Protestant at. Madj Entrance, op Beauvais the Reformation; Francois-Joseph de la Rochefou-cauld (1772-92), martyred in the Carmelite prisonin 1792; and Feutrier (1825-30), minister of eccle-siastical affairs in the Martignac cabinet. Diocese of Senlis.—The Church founded at Senlisby .St. Rieul (Regulus) about 300, had its ninthbishop, St. Levangius, in 511. Saints Sanctinus, Ag-marus, and Autbertus were bishops in the sixthand seventh centuries. Diocese of Xoyon.—The headquarters of the cityof the Veromandui, who undoubtedly had a bishopfrom the beginning of the fourth centurj, havingbeen destroyed by the barbarians, the bishops were•n-ithout a residence until St. M^dard (530-545),fourteenth bishop, installed himself at Xoyon. Thiscity counted among its bishops the goldsmithSt. Eloi (Eligius, 640-659), Da^oberts prime min-ister; St. Munimolen


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