Eugenius III. from Toledo
Eugenius III. of Toledo , Eugenius Toletanus, († November 13, 657 in Toledo ) was Archbishop of Toledo and saint from 647.
Sometimes he is also numbered as Eugenius II.
Eugenius, the son of a Visigoth, was raised in Toledo. He escaped a career there by fleeing to Saragossa to become a monk. He was the deacon of Bishop Braulio of Saragossa and his mainstay before he was appointed Bishop of Toledo by King Chindaswinth to succeed Eugenius II of Toledo .
He reformed the liturgy and published poetry. They appeared in print in Paris in 1619 (publisher J. Sirmond).
At the request of the king he reissued the poems of the African Blossius Aemilius Dracontius , although he also changed their content, since the Visigoth kings had become Catholic and the Arian Dracontius was not orthodox enough for them.
In the biography of Eugenius III. of Toledo in De viris Illustribus by Ildefons of Toledo , he is described as physically small and frail, but of high intellect.
Prose works, including a treatise on the Trinity, have not survived.
expenditure
- Friedrich Vollmer : Eugenius von Toledo, Carmina et epistulae, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, AA 14, Berlin 1905, pp. 231-270
- PF Alberto (Ed.), Opera Omnia (Eugenius Toletanus), Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 114, Brepolis 2005
literature
- Max Manitius : History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages, Volume 1, Beck, 1911, 2005, p. 194ff (Eugenius III. Of Toledo)
- Vollmer: The collection of poems by Eugenius of Toledo, New Archive of the Society for Older German History, Volume 26, 1901, 391–409
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eugenius III. from Toledo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eugenius Toletanus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Toledo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 647 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 657 |
| Place of death | Toledo |