Acarius

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Saint Acarius (also Acharius ; * before 594; † probably November 27, 639 ) was bishop of Tournai and at the same time of Noyon .

Acarius, who was born in the Gallo Franconia, belonged to the school of St. Columban of Luxeuil , an Irish missionary who founded the Luxeuil monastery in the southwestern foothills of the Vosges and developed it into one of the leading missionary monasteries of the time. Acarius is one of a number of important Frankish bishops who received their training in this monastery and who took up and further developed the methods and ideas of the Irish Scottish missionaries in the Frankish empire .

The exact time of his appointment as bishop is uncertain; in 627 he was already in office. He promoted the Belgium missionary Amand von Maastricht , but despite the reputation he otherwise enjoyed with the Austrasian King Dagobert I , he could not do anything against his decision to ban Amand because of his moral views, which were too strict in the eyes of the king. Acarius, a man of talent and education, has nonetheless made a contribution to the progress of Christianity in Gaul. A few years before his death, he drew Dagobert's attention to the apparently very skilled missionary Audomar , who was also trained in Luxeuil , who was then promoted to Bishop of Tarvanna and who worked very successfully in the then largely pagan missionary areas of northern Gaul in the coming decades .

Acarius' death is likely November 27, 639; very soon after his death he was venerated as a saint . (De Ram, Hagiogr. Nat. I. 139.)

  • Bust of St. Acarius in Haspres

  • Stained glass of St. Acarius in Haspres

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marc van Uytfanghe: Audomarus . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1197.

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personal data
SURNAME Acarius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Doornik and Noyon
DATE OF BIRTH before 594
DATE OF DEATH at November 27, 639