Eucherius of Lyon

Eucherius of Lyon

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name=Saint Eucherius of Lyon
birth_date=say 380
death_date=ca 449
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venerated_in=Roman Catholicism


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Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, (born say 380 – died ca 449) was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation. Henry Wace ranked him "except perhaps St. Irenaeus the most distinguished occupant of that see" [ [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.Eucherius_1.html Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies. | Christian Classics Ethereal Library ] ] .

On the death of his wife Gallia? (born say 390), as was a common 5th century practice, he withdrew for a time to the monastery of Lérins, founded by Saint Honoratus on the smaller of the two islands off Antibes, with his sons, Veranius and Salonius, to live a severely simple life of study and devote himself to the education of his sons. Soon afterward he withdrew further, however, to the neighbouring island of Lerona (now Sainte-Marguerite), where he devoted his time to study and mortification of the flesh. With the thought that he might join the anchorites in the deserts of the East, he consulted John Cassian, the famed hermit who had returned from the East to Marseille; Cassian responded with some of his "Collationes", describing the daily lives of the hermits of the Egyptian Thebaid. It was at this time ("ca" 428) that Eucherius wrote his epistolary essay "De laude Eremi" ("In praise of hermits") addressed to Bishop Hilary of Arles.

Though imitating the ascetic lifestyle of the Egyptian hermits, Eucherius kept in touch with men renowned for learning and piety: Cassian, Hilary of Arles, Honoratus, later Bishop of Marseille, Claudianus Mamertus, Agroecius (who dedicated a book to him), Sidonius Apollinaris and his kinsman Valerian, to whom he wrote his "Epistola paraenetica ad Valerianum cognatum, de contemptu mundi" ("Epistle to his kinsman Valerian, On the contempt of the world") an expression of the despair for the present and future of the world in its last throes shared by many educated men of Late Antiquity, with hope for a world to come: Erasmus thought so highly of its Latin style that he edited and published it at Basel (1520).

His "Liber formularum spiritalis intelligentiae" addressed to his son Veranius is a defence of the lawfulness of reading an allegorical sense in Scripture, bringing to bear the metaphors in Psalms and such phrases as "the hand of God" The term "anagoge" (ἀναγωγὴ) is employed for the application of Scripture to the heavenly Jerusalem to come, and there are other examples of what would become classic Medieval hermeneutics.

The fame of Eucherius was soon so widespread in southeastern Gaul that he was chosen bishop of Lyon. This was probably in 434; it is certain, at least that he attended the First Council of Orange (441) as Metropolitan of Lyon, and that he retained this dignity until his death. He was succeeded in the bishopric by his son Veranius, while his other son, Salonius, became Bishop of Geneva.

Among Eucherius' other letters are his "Institutiones ad Salonium" addressed to his other son. Many homilies and other writings have been attributed to Eucherius.

By his wife Gallia? he was the father of Tullia of Lyon (Lugdunum) (born say 410), wife of a man of Lyon (Lugdunum) (b. ca 400) who was a son of Decimus Rusticus and wife Artemia, who was a Vicarius of a Province in Gaul under the father of Sidonius Apollinaris between 423 and 448, and they were the parents of Aquilinus (ca 430 – ca 470), Nobleman at Lyon (Lugdunum), schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris and the father of St. Viventiolus and his brother St. Rusticus, Archbishop of Lyon.

External links

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05595a.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia":] Saint Eucherius of Lyons"
* [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wace/biodict.Eucherius_1.html Henry Wace, "A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature":] Eucherius
* [http://www.ccel.org/php/disp.php?authorID=schaff&bookID=encyc04&page=199 Edgar Henneke in "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge":] Eucherius
* [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/eucherius/contempt.toc.html "The World Contemned" ("De Contemptu mundi")] (in English, translated by Henry Vaughan, 1654)
* [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/euc.laude.html "De laude eremi"] (in Latin) at The Latin Library

References

* Salvator Pricoco, 1965. "Eucherii De Laude eremi" (University of Catania) This edition establishes the best, most recent Latin text.
* Bishop of Tours Gregory, Historia Francorum (The History of the Franks) (London, England: Penguin Books, Ltd., 1974).
* Ford Mommaerts-Browne, "A Speculation".
* Christian Settipani, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne (France: Éditions Christian, 1989).
* Sidonius Apollinaris, The Letters of Sidonius (Oxford: Clarendon, 1915) (orig.), pp. clx-clxxxiii; List of Correspondents, Notes, V.ix.1.

ee also

* Descent from antiquity

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