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Epidauro

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Also known as: Italian: Cavtat

EPIDAURO. - A locality in Dalmatia known for
the temple of Aesculapius (today Cavtat-Ragusavecchia).
According to the Vita s. Hilarionis of St. Jerome (Pl. 23,
1, 50) Hilarion killed a dragon there, and the fact is
already interpreted allegorically by Coleti. In the 6th century
it is an episcopal see.

The names of three bishops of this
ancient city have been preserved: Fabrizio (530) and Paulo (Paul, 533), who
participate in the Synods of Salona as suffragans,

14. - ENCOLOFEDIA CATTOLICA. - V.

and Florenzio, to whom Gregory the Great addressed some
letters (591). After the destruction of the city carried out by the Avars in the 7th century, the bishop Giovanni, with a part of the population that escaped
extermination, settles on a steep rock below mount Srd (St. Sergius)
and they found a new city: Ragustum, Ragusa, whose bishops are successors of those of E.

Bibliography

BIBL.: D. Parlati, Illyricum sacrum. Venice 1780-1819. VI, pp. 4-35.

Stefano Draganovic

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By Stefano Draganović

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), coll. 418–419.

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Draganovic, Stefano. “Epidauro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 418–419. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/epidauro.

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Draganovic, Stefano. “Epidauro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 418–419. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/epidauro.

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@incollection{ec5_epidauro,
  author    = {Draganovic, Stefano},
  title     = {Epidauro},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {418--419},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/epidauro}
}

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