Palladius (bishop)

Palladius († approx. 457/461) was a mission bishop in Ireland . He is venerated as a saint. His feast day is July 6th.

Live and act

Presumably he was first dean of Germanus von Auxerre . He had a wife and a daughter, but around 408, under the influence of Pelagianism , he went to Sicily to lead an ascetic life. Later he went to Rome , where he possibly persuaded Celestine I to send Germanus of Auxerre on a mission to Britain . Palladius himself will have abandoned his Pelagian intentions. Apparently he was sent to Ireland as a missionary bishop in 431, concentrating on the province of Leinster , while Patrick , who was almost simultaneously active, missionaries in Ulster and Connacht .

With the information on Palladius' life it should be taken into account that the sources do not always show whether the corresponding references to a Palladius are actually always the same person.

See also

• Palladius of Saintes

literature

• Moran, PF:  St. Palladius . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913.
• L. Bieler: Palladius . In: Josef Höfer , Karl Rahner (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 2nd Edition. tape 8 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1963.
• Ernst Lüdemann:  Palladius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1462-1463.