"[4] It is said that Brice left the monastery "to live with beautiful horses in his stables and pretty slaves in his house.

In the thirtieth year of his episcopate, a nun who was a washerwoman in his household gave birth to a child that, owing to calumny, was rumored to be his.

[2] During his absence several other bishops had been appointed to Tours; but when he came back, the last of them had just died and Brice resumed his duties.

He built a chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul to protect the tomb of his predecessor Martin.

Church historians see in the various relevant legends an expression of the tensions between the regular clergy and the secular priests in Tours at that time.

His bones were transferred by Gregory of Tours to Clermont and are now in the church of San Michele in Pavia.