EVODIUS. - A friend of St. Augustine, he followed him to Rome and was present at the death of St. Monica (Augustine, Conf., IX, 12, 31; cf. IX, 8, 17); afterwards both returned to Africa. From about 396 he was bishop of Uzela in proconsular Africa, and died in 426. After having taken part in a mission to Rome to request the application of the Theodosian laws against the Donatists, he aroused their anger against his person (404).

Probably E. is the author of the treatise: De fide contra Manichaeos (PL. 12, 1139-54; CSEL, 25, edited by L. Zycha, p. 949). In the collection of the Epistles of St. Augustine (nos. 158, 160, 161, 163) four letters of E. have been preserved, and another addressed to the abbot Valentine of Adrumetum on the problems of predestination and Grace was published by G. Morin in Revue bénédictine, 18 (1901), pp. 241-56.

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BIBL.: H. W. Philpot, s. v. in Dictionary of Chr. biography, II, p. 439-450; P. Moncaux, Histoire littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, VII, Paris 1923, pp. 42-44.

Erik Peterson

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