Apollinaris, Bishop of Valence, Saint

APOLLINARE, VESCOVO DI VALENCE, SANTO

Feast day: 5 October

APOLLINARIS, Bishop of Valence, Saint. - Son of the senator Isicius and brother of the poet St. Avitus, both bishops of Vienne. Born around 453; a disciple, it seems, of the rhetorician Sapaudus and of St. Mamertus, he was later bishop of Valence for 34 years (c. 490-c. 523). He took part in the Councils of Epaone (517) and of Lyon. He urged his brother Avitus to publish his poems. He died after the Council of Lyon, which was held between 518 and 523. Feast day on October 5, listed in the Hieronymian and Roman Martyrologies. The Vita (BHL, 634) is not contemporary, but probably dates to the Carolingian era and is earlier than that of St. Avitus (BHL, 885). The correspondence of St. Avitus (PL 59; ed. Chevalier, Lyon 1898) is his best biographical source.

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BIBL.: Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 344; Martyr. Romanum, p. 436; Acta SS. Octobris, III, Antwerp 1770, pp. 45-65; Hefele-Leclercq, II, II, pp. 951-55, 1031-46; L. Duchesne, Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, I, 2nd ed., Paris 1907, pp. 153 note 4, 217, 223; R. Aigrain, s.v. in DHG, III, coll. 682-86 (a comprehensive indication of the sources and bibliography); U. Moricca, Storia della letteratura italiana cristiana, III, 1, Turin (1932), pp. 138-49, passim.

A. Pietro Frutaz

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