Eucherius of Lyon
Eucherius of Lyon (* before 410; † around 450) was Bishop of Lyon and saint .
Life
Eucherius came from one of the most respected patrician families in Gaul . Around 410, after a public career, he settled with his wife Galla and his sons Salonius and Veranus, the later bishops of Geneva and Vence , on the monastery island of Lerinum , then leaving their sons with their teachers Vincent of Lérins and Salvian of Marseille on the neighboring island Lero (now Sainte-Marguerite) where there was a strictly ascetic monastery under the direction of Honoratus of Arles . He stood u. a. in correspondence with Paulinus von Nola . Around 434 Eucherius became Bishop of Lyon. In 441 he took part in the Synod of Orange .
Several monastic writings ( De laude eremi, De contemptu mundi; his excerpts from the Conlationes sanctorum patrum by Johannes Cassianus and a work on true philosophy) by Eucherius of Lyon are known, and he also has two exegetical reference works which were very popular in the Middle Ages and used in monastic teaching. These are the formulas spiritalis intelligentiae, allegorical interpretations of figurative expressions in the Bible, and the instructions , explanations of biblical introductory questions, difficult biblical passages, Hebrew and Greek proper names and foreign words.
His best-known work is the Passio Agaunensium martyrum about the martyrdom of the Thebaic Legion and St. Mauritius , which he wrote around the years 430/40. Other bishops took up this legend , which was originally limited to today's Swiss Valais , and expanded it to include Bonn (St. Cassius and St.Florentius), Cologne (St. Gereon) and Xanten (St. Viktor and St. Mallosus).
Eucherius is venerated as a saint . His feast day is November 16.
literature
- Gereon Becht-Jördens: Biography as salvation history. A paradigm shift in the genre development: Prolegomena to a formal historical interpretation of Einhart's Vita Karoli . In: Andrea Jördens, Hans Armin Gärtner, Herwig Görgemanns, Adolf Martin Ritter (eds.): Quaerite faciem eius semper. Studies on the intellectual-historical relationships between antiquity and Christianity (thank you for Albrecht Dihle on his 85th birthday from the 'Heidelberg Church Fathers Colloquium'). Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 2008, pp. 1–21, especially pp. 16–21. ISBN 978-3-8300-2749-2
- Thomas Reiser: Representation, evaluation and function of loneliness. Bernard of Tiron, the first hermits, Eucherius of Lyon. In: MlJb 44. 2009, pp. 273-302.
- Otto Wermelinger et al. (Hrsg.): Mauritius ud Thebean Legion (Paradosis 49). Friborg 2005
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Eucherius of Lyon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1547-1548.
- Passio Acaunensium Martyrum. In: Bruno Krusch (ed.): Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 3: Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici et antiquiorum aliquot (I). Hanover 1896, pp. 20–41 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ EF Gelpke: Church history of Switzerland under the Roman, Burgundy and Allemann rule. Verlag der J. Dalp'schen Buchhandlung, Bern 1856, p. 53.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Sicaire |
Bishop of Lyon 434-450 |
patent |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eucherius of Lyon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Lyon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | uncertain: France |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 450 |