Day 258 -- Saint Austregisilus of Bourges

Saint Austregisilus of Bourges is represented as an armored knight on horseback with a religious habit over his armor and another man falling off a horse in front of him. He was educated and trained as a courtier but felt the call to religious life and became a monk in the Abbey of Saint-Nizier at Lyons, France. He became the abbot of his house. In 612 he became bishop of Bourges, France. He died in 624.