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- ↑ Archdiocese of Lyon, France at Catholic Saints.info.
- ↑ Étienne Joseph Poullin de Lumina (1770). Histoire de l'église de Lyon [Church history of Lyon] (in French). Joseph-Louis Berthoud. p. 56.
- ↑ Bernard Berthod, Jacqueline Boucher, Bruno Galland, Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, Archevêques de Lyon, Lyon, éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, 2012, p191
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