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- ↑ David M. Cheney, Archdiocese of Lyon Archived 2010-09-22 at the Wayback Machine at catholic-hierarchy.org.[ self-published source ]
- ↑ Archdiocese of Lyon, France Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine at Catholic Saints.info.
- ↑ Jules Baudot, Dictionnaire d'hagiographie, 1925, p.59.
- ↑ 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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