Arnulf from Gap

Bishop Arnoux preaching, painting by Louis Court (1670–1733) in Gap Cathedral.

Saint Arnulf von Gap (French: Arnulphe , known as Arnoux ; † 1079 in Gap ) was bishop of the diocese of Gap in the county of Forcalquier in Provence and is venerated to this day as the patron saint of Gap.

Life and effect

Bishop Arnoux is the first shepherd of the Gap diocese, which has existed since late antiquity, and of whom more details about his life are known. In the 12th century, two lives of saints were created to commemorate his work, the first on behalf of the cathedral chapter of Gap (today in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome) and the second as an expanded copy of it in the monastery of Sainte-Trinité in Vendôme , near the City of Orléans .

Arnoux was first a monk in the monastery of Sainte Trinité and was appointed bishop of the Alpine diocese of Gap by Pope Alexander II around 1064 or 1065 as the successor to an excommunicated incumbent. It seems that Arnoux can be counted among the energetic reform bishops of the 11th century. The lives of saints, some of which are legendary, tell of the bishop's miraculous healings during his tenure, and miracles are also said to have occurred at his grave in the small church of Saint Jean-le-Rond near the cathedral.

Bishop Armand von Gap is said to have ordered the translation of the bishop's tomb into the cathedral around 1104 in order to strengthen the effect of Arnoux, already venerated as a saint, as a point of attraction for pilgrims. When the grave was opened, the body is said to have been intact. An arm was removed from this and from then on presented in the church as a relic for centuries. The image of the arm appears in the medieval seals of the cathedral chapter and also of the Bishop of Gap. Saint Arnoux's feast day on September 19 was always a public holiday in the Gap diocese, and his personal name was widespread in the region beyond the Middle Ages.

In the new Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Arnoux cathedral in Gap, consecrated in 1895, there are several representations of the bishop from the 18th and 19th centuries.

See also

• List of the Bishops of Gap

literature

• Olivier Hanne: La genèse médiévale d'une figure de l'épiscopat de Gap. Saint Arnoux (c.1065 - c.1079). 2014, pp. 1–11.
• Jean-Irénée Depery: Vie de saint Arnoux, évêque et patron du diocèse de Gap. Gap 1845.

Web links

• Bishop Arnoux von Gap , Author: Olivier Hanne
• Lexicon of saints
• Biography of St. Arnoux
• Saint Arnoux

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Hervé Foulon: Recherches autour du dossier hagiographique de saint Arnoux, évêque de Gap (mort avant 1079). In: Analecta bollandiana, No. 125-2, 2007, pp. 321-55.
2. ↑ Angelica No. 1269, pp. 331-334.
3. ↑ Jean-Irenee Depery: Vie de saint Arnoux évêque, et du patron diocèse de Gap. Gap 1845.
4. ^ Joseph Roman: Sigillographie du diocèse de Gap. Paris-Grenoble 1870 (Monuments de l'histoire des Hautes-Alpes, No. 48), pp. 89–91.