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The Cathedral possesses an especially sacred relic, called the ''Saint-Clou'', the remains of one of the nails that was used on Christ at the Crucifixion. According to the legend retailed by Gregory of Tours, two of the nails were given by Saint Helena to her son Constantine the Great, who wore one on his helmet and had the other fashioned into a bit for his horse's mouth (or into a bridle ornament).<ref>The story has the approbation of Saint Ambrose of Milan. Andreoli, p. 202.</ref> One legend says that Constantine gave the Saint-Clou to Bishop Siffrein's father, involving an anachronism of major proportions.<ref>Expilly, pp. 99-100.</ref> Its image is found in various places in the Cathedral and on various medieval seals.<ref>Andreoli, pp. 198-233. {{cite book|author=Joe Nickell|title=Relics of the Christ|url=https://archive.org/details/relicsofchrist00joen|url-access=registration|year=2007|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=0-8131-7212-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/relicsofchrist00joen/page/94 94]}}, who points out that there are also nails in Rome, in Paris, in Trier (presented by Helena herself), in Vienna, in Florence, in Milan, in Monza, at the bottom of the Adriatic, and in some twenty-two other places. On the seals, from the 13th century, see: Esquilly, p. 99.</ref>
The Chapter of the Cathedral was founded in 982 by Bishop Ayrardus, with sixteen Canons. In 1241 Bishop Guillelmus Beroaldi (Beroardus) had to reduce the number of Canons to twelve for financial reasons. Two of the twelve were dignities (''dignités,'' not 'dignitaries'): the Provost and the Archdeacon (founded in 1306). There was also a Capiscol and a Sacristan, and two of the Canons served as
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