Eustache also known as Eustace or Eustase of Bourges or Autun where he originated, was a 6th-century priest who became

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. He trained at the Abbey of Saint-Symphorien, Autun. Eustache first became

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and archdeacon of Autun, was elected archbishop of Bourges, after the death of Severe Sulpice on 29 January 591 and was the 20th to occupy the episcopal see, he left to his successor Apolinaire. In

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the

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honoured him as a

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on 31 December.Chronologie des saints, Paris, chez Jean de Nully rue Saint Jacques 1707, p.339.

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