Bacon (god)

The existence of a pre-Christian Gallic or Gallo-Roman deity named Bacon has been posited based on an inscription in Latin from a monument in Chalon-sur-Saône, in France,[1] preserved in the hagiography of a Saint Marcel de Chalon,[2] martyred in 177 or 179.[3] According to L. Armand-Calliat, the cult of this Bacon was inherited by Saint Anthony the Great, venerated in the Haute Bourgogne on 17 January.[4]

References
  1. Mémoires de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Châlon-sur-Saône. Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Châlon-sur-Saône. 1850. pp. 226–32.
  2. Dinet, Ch.-L. (1861). Saint Symphorien et son culte, avec tous les souvenirs qui s'y rattachent... M. Dejussieu. pp. 143–44.
  3. "Saint Marcel". Nominis.cef.fr. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  4. Armand-Calliat, L. (1941). "A propos du dieu Bacon" (PDF). Annales de Bourgogne. 13: 27–30.
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