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[ed.] [tr.] Borius, René, Constance de Lyon: Vie de Saint Germain d'Auxerre, Sources Chrétiennes, 112, Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1965.
Critical edition with a French translation
[ed.] Levison, Wilhelm, “XI: Vita Germani episcopi Autissiodorensis auctore Constantio”, in: Bruno Krusch, and Wilhelm Levison (eds), Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici (V), 7, Hanover and Leipzig, 1920. 225–283.
Digital MGH: <link>
[tr.] Hoare, F. R., “Constantius of Lyon: The Life of Saint Germanus of Auxerre”, in: Thomas F. X. Noble, and Thomas Head (eds), Soldiers of Christ: saints and saints' lives from Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. 75–106.

Secondary sources (select)

Borius, René, Constance de Lyon: Vie de Saint Germain d'Auxerre, Sources Chrétiennes, 112, Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1965.
2–106 Introduction
Thompson, E. A., Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the end of Roman Britain, Studies in Celtic History, 6, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1984.