For other saints named Avitus, see Saint Avitus (disambiguation).
Saint Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus of Vienne
Statue in Saint-Avit dans la Drôme, in France
Born
c. 450[1]
Died
After 517 and before 519[2]
Venerated in
Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast
February 5
Alcimus Ecdicius[3]Avitus (c. 450 – February 5, 517/518 or 519) was a Latin poet and bishop of Vienne in Gaul. His fame rests in part on his poetry, but also on the role he played as secretary for the Burgundian kings.
Avitus was born of a prominent Gallo-Roman senatorial family related to Emperor Avitus.[4]
^Encyclopedia of Early christianity, second edition: "Avitus of Vienne (450-518) turned Genesis and Exodus into Hexameters, a kind of “Paradise Lost.”"
^The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, s.v. "Avitus 4" notes that he was present at the Council of Epaon, 517, but absent at the Council of Lyon, 519.
^Ecdicius in the prefatio to his Carmina.
^"im Umfeld des Kaisers Avitus" (Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon); The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, s.v. "Avitus 4".
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Baptism of Clovis.’ In Early Medieval Europe, volume 7, pages 29–57. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998. Shanzer, D. and I. Wood. AvitusofVienne: Letters...
subject of a sermon by Bishop AvitusofVienne entitled in Latin Homilia de conversione Lenteildis Chlodovaei sororis, "Homily on the conversion of Clovis'...
that the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries (e.g., Jerome, AvitusofVienne, and Gregory the Great) did adopt his position. In the later Medieval...
Gregory's account. A surviving letter from AvitusofVienne, congratulating Clovis on his baptism, makes no mention of the supposed recent battlefield conversion...
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man that Bishop AvitusofVienne forwarded to him some of his works for editing. Contumeliosus was accused of adultery and alienation of church property...
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from Archbishop AvitusofVienne to Caesarius of Arles, dated to the period 502–508, and certainly no later than 513, which is a letter of recommendation...
list of Christian Church Fathers. Roman Catholics generally regard the Patristic period to have closed with the death of John of Damascus, a Doctor of the...
495), Gennadius of Massilia (died c. 496), AvitusofVienne (c. 470 – 523), Fulgentius of Ruspe (462 or 467 – 527 or 533), and Isidore of Seville (died...
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of the most prominent Greek Fathers are Justin Martyr, Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria...
alongside Archbishop Viventiolus of Lyon, would be Julian ofVienne. Although the Vita of Saint Apollinaris placed Avitus at this council, Ulysse Chevalier...
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