Metz No. 2

Corblet reports that, according to the "Actes de saint Clément, évêque de Metz", this bishop had a baptistery constructed about the same time as the church he had already built in the honour of the Apostle St. Peter. This baptistery, in which bishop Clément "gagna beaucoup d'âmes à Jésus-Christ", was dedicated to the honour of St. John the Baptist. (Corblet, 1881, v. 2, p. 68). Another source [cf. infra] states that the church of St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains "is supposed to be the oldest in France. A Roman basilica in the 4C, it was rebuilt in the 7C and has deteriorated since then" and that "nearby are the ruins of a building thought to have contained the baths". (France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, 1985, p. 384). The latter structure, the baths, may be the same building referred to as a baptistery in Corblet.