Helios of Lyon

Helios ({{langx|fr|Hélie}}), also known as Helius, Ælius or Helias, was the fourth bishop of Lyon.David M. Cheney, [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dlyon.html Archdiocese of Lyon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922230635/http://catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dlyon.html |date=2010-09-22 }} at catholic-hierarchy.org. He is recognized as a saint by both the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.[http://catholicsaints.info/archdiocese-of-lyon-france/ Archdiocese of Lyon, France] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305041041/http://catholicsaints.info/archdiocese-of-lyon-france/ |date=2016-03-05 }} at Catholic Saints.info.

Very little is known of his life. He succeeded Zacharie of Lyon in the first half of the 3rd century. St. Gregory of Tours claims in his In Gloria confessorumBernard Berthod, Jacqueline Boucher, Bruno Galland, Régis Ladous and André Pelletier, Archevêques de Lyon, Lyon, éditions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, 2012, p191. that at his death, when a thief opened his tomb to strip his body, the corpse of Helius grabbed the thief and delivered him until the arrival of Justice. Gregory of Tours knew the location of his funeral in the crypt.Jacques Gadille (dir.), René Fédou, Henri Hours et Bernard de Vregille, Le diocèse de Lyon, Paris, Beauchesne, coll. (Histoire des diocèses de France » (no 16), 1983), p350 Like most of the early bishops of Lyon, his name is Greek.