'Then, after St-Léonard, in the city of Périgueux, one should visit the body of the blessed Fronto, bishop and confesssor, who was ordained in Rome into the pontifical state by the blessed apostle Peter, and sent with a certain priest named George to preach in this city.  Though they set out together, George died along the way and was buried, and the blessed Fronto went back to the apostle and announced the death of his companion.  To him the blessed Peter then gave his staff, saying, 'When you place this my staff upon the body of your companion, speak thus, "For the sake of that charge which you have accepted from the apostle, in the name of Christ, rise and complete it."  And thus it was done.  By means of the staff of the apostle, the blessed Fronto received back his companion from death on the journey and converted the said city to Christ by his preaching, and he won renown for his numerous miracles, and having died there with dignity, he received burial in the basilica built in his name, where, through God's bounty, numerous blessings are granted to those who ask.  It is said by some that he was even one of the company of the disciples of Christ Himself.  His tomb does not resemble any other sepulchres of saints; indeed, it is constructed with the greatest care, as a rotonda, like the Holy Sepulchre, and it surpassed in the beauty of the workmanship all the tombs of other saints.  His holy feast day falls on the eighth day before the Kalends of November [25 October].

The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela, tr. Paula Gerson, Annie Shaver-Crandell, Alison Stones, Jeanne Krochalis, London, 1998, II, 49.

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