Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Saints & hagiography Saints

Adrian of Nisida

ADRIANO DI NISIDA

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Also known as: Hadrian of Nisida; Latin: Hadrianus

ADRIAN OF NISIDA. - Benedictine, of African origin, abbot of Nisida near Naples, d. in 709 (or 710?). Pope Vitalian wanted him as archbishop of Canterbury, but he declined the high dignity, presenting in his place his friend Theodore of Tarsus (v.). He followed the latter to England and became his right-hand man, especially in the ecclesiastical and cultural formation of the English Church. The school of Canterbury owes to him its first splendor.

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BIBL.: Bede, Hist. eccl., IV, v. 20. Cf. also: Acta SS. Joannarii, I, Antwerp 1643, p. 515 ff.; BHL. 558; Ph. Schmitz, L'Ordre de S. Benoit, I, Maredsous 1942, p. 46.

Giuseppe Löw

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 338.

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Lów, Giuseppe. “Adriano di Nisida.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 338. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adriano-di-nisida.

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Lów, Giuseppe. “Adriano di Nisida.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 338. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adriano-di-nisida.

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  author    = {Lów, Giuseppe},
  title     = {Adriano di Nisida},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {338},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adriano-di-nisida}
}

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