Gregory of Tours praises his zeal and ability in preaching and austerity of life.
Towards the end of his episcopate, he transferred to the church of the lepers' hospital, the remains of Saint Desideratus (Didier).
[6][7] Agricola died in 580 at the age of eighty-three, after having ruled the diocese forty-eight years, and was buried in the church of Saint Marcellus.
Pope John VIII, returning from the Council of Troyes (August 878), authorized Agricola's cultus.
In 1315, a feast was established in the diocese of Chalon-sur-Saene, celebrated on 30 April, in which the ancient bishop and Saint Desiderato were remembered.