Abrunculus
Aprunculus of Treves (also Aprunculus , Aponculus ) († around 525 / 526 ) was after 511 Bishop of Trier . He is venerated as a saint .
Life
He must have belonged to the clergy who Theuderich I brought in to refresh the outdated Trier church from the Auvergne .
The report that St. Gallus was supposed to have worked in Trier in his time is unhistorical , as he lived much later than Abrunculus.
The largely missing record of his person and other Trier bishops at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 6th century in contemporary sources suggests a relatively low (political) importance of the Trier church at this time.
The year of his death was concluded from the assumption of office of his successor Nicetius .
Afterlife
He was probably buried in an oratorio at the place of St. Symphorian in Trier. He has been venerated as a saint since the end of the 6th century. It is recorded in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum . Even Gregory of Tours calls him. There have been reports of his worship in Trier since the 10th century. He was also venerated in Auxerre , Autun and Gellone in Languedoc . A portrait of him can be found in the Egbert Psalter . Abbot Thietmar took some parts of the relics along with the bones of St. Modoald to the Saxon monastery of Helmarshausen . Around 1047 his bones were transferred to St. Paulin . There his grave was in a small crypt under the Clement Altar in front of the choir. From there they came to the Springiersbach monastery in 1136 . Parts of the bones possibly came to the Abrunculus Chapel in the immediate vicinity of the Trier Cathedral at this time . The remains of the bones in St. Paulin were brought to the city in 1674 before the monastery was destroyed. A lead tablet with an inscription was also removed from the coffin and later placed in a reliquary. In the Trier area, Abrunculus is the patron saint of the branch church in Beßlich and von Itzig .
His feast day is April 21st or 22nd.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Hubert Anton: The Trier Church and northern Gaul in the late Roman and Frankish times. In: Beihefte der Francia 16,2, 1989, p. 61 ( digitized version )
literature
- Franz-Josef Heyen: The St. Paulin Abbey in front of Trier. Berlin, New York, 1972 (Germania Sacra NF 6, 1) v. a. 291-294
- Hans Hubert Anton: Trier in the early Middle Ages. Paderborn, Munich a. a., 1987 pp. 86-88
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Fibicius |
Bishop of Trier 525-526 |
Nicetius |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abrunculus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aponculus; Aprunculus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Trier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | at 525-526 |