Amadour

Her wounds were immediately dressed and her face bandaged, after which her mother sent her to her own chamber, and begged her to entertain Amadour, who was in her cabinet, until she had got rid of her company.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

Just when Florida could hardly refrain from advancing Amadour from the condition of an expectant to that of a favored lover, a distressing and very inopportune accident occurred.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

The Countess of Aranda, hearing that her daughter was piteously changed, wanted her to come back to her, but Florida would not; for when she learned that Amadour had acquainted her mother with their mutual friendship, and that her mother, though so discreet and virtuous, had so much confidence in Amadour that she approved of it, she was in marvellous perplexity.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

After many tears wrung from her eyes by her grief at having married contrary to her inclination, and at having lost him whom she loved so passionately, and whom she never hoped to see again, she resolved to console herself with the love and confidence she had in Amadour.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

The loue of Amadour and Florinda: wherein be conteined mani sleightes and dissimulations, together with the renowmed chastitie of the said

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Hath the Lady, Gentlewoman, or other of the feminine kinde a desire to beholde a mirrour of chastitie, let theim reade ouer the nouelles of the lady Panthea, of the Duchesse of Sauoy, of the Countesse of Salesburie, of Amadour and Florinda?

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

The untrustworthiness of the legend has led some recent authors to suggest that Amadour was an unknown hermit or possible St. Amator, Bishop of Auxerre, but this is mere hypothesis, without any historical basis.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Driven forth from Palestine by persecution, Amadour and Veronica embarked in a frail skiff and, guided by an angel, landed on the coast of Aquitaine, where thy met Bishop St. Martial, another disciple of Christ who was preaching the Gospel in the south-west of Gaul.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The name of Amadour occurs in no document previous to the compilation of his Acts, which on careful examination and on an application of the rules of the cursus to the text cannot be judged older than the twelfth century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

According to a tradition connected with the legend of St. Martial (see LIMOGES), this saint, deputed by St. Peter, came to Cahors in the first century and there dedicated a church to St. Stephen, while his disciple, St. Amadour (Amator), the Zaccheus of the Gospel and husband of St. Veronica (see BORDEAUX), evangelized the diocese.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913