page_title: Ferreolus and Ferrutio
section_title: Veneration
hierarchical_section_title: Ferreolus and Ferrutio / Veneration
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Saint Ferjeux de Besançon (Ferrutio of Besançon)
context_page_description: Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio are venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church, especially in Besancon where they are honored as its patron saints.
context_section_description: According to their legend, their relics were discovered in a cave near Besançon in AD 370 by a military tribune whose dog was chasing a fox. The relics were enshrined by Bishop Anianus of Besançon in the 4th century AD. Saint Gregory of Tours writes that miracles were attributed to their relics in his time; he says that his brother-in-law was cured of a dangerous distemper at the saints' intercession. The Missale Gothicum (ca. AD 700) contains a full proper of the Mass in their honor. In the sixteenth century, they were invoked in Besançon against sickness, along with Saint Sebastian and Saint Roch.
  Ferreolus appears in a catalogue of the 17th century as a bishop of Besançon, but the liturgy of Besançon has always remembered Ferreolus as a priest, and Ferrutio as a deacon. Ferreolus and Ferrutio, as patrons of Besançon, are considered to have appeared on the city walls in times of danger. The two saints have been represented in stained glass, paintings, and statues in many churches and chapels in the two dioceses of the Franche-Comté: Saint-Claude and Besançon.
  The Basilique Saint-Ferjeux is situated in the neighborhood of Saint-Ferjeux, Besançon.
  They are depicted on a French lantern slide dating from AD 1900.
caption: Statue of Ferrutio of Besançon. Basilique Saint-Ferjeux, near Besançon.
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