POMERIUS, JULIANUS. - Priest, orator, born in Mauritania; around the middle of the 5th century he moved to Gaul (Gennadius, De viris illustr., 66), taking up residence in Arles (Vita s. Caesarii episc. Arelatensis, 1, 9), where he practiced the profession of rhetorician; one of his disciples was Caesarius.
He later became abbas, held in esteem by the bishopsEnnodius of Pavia (Epist., 2, 6) and Ruricius of Limoges (Epist., 1, 17; 2, 9). His writing De animae natura has not been preserved; likewise lost are the books De contemptu mundi and De virginibus instituendis. The work De vita contemplativa in 3 books has, however, been preserved; it was wrongly ascribed to Prosper of Aquitaine, but cited as a work of G. P. by Isidore of Seville with the words: De futurae vitae contemplatione vel actuali conversatione necnon de vitiis et virtutibus, which corresponds completely to the subject matter of the three books of G. P.'s work. It is a kind of pastoral rule for the clergy (bishops). The author knew the works of St. Augustine.
Bibliography2 worksed.: PL. 59, 415-520. For the text cf. also: Fr. Degenhart, Studien zu Iulianus Pomerius. Programm, Eichstätt 1903; S. C. Prendergast, The l
BIBL.: ed.: PL. 59, 415-520. For the text cf. also: Fr. Degenhart, Studien zu Iulianus Pomerius. Programm, Eichstätt 1903; S. C. Prendergast, The latinity of the De vita contemplativa of Iulian Pomerius (Catholic University of America, Patristic Studies, 55), Washington 1938. English translation with notes by M. I. Suelzer (Ancient christian writers, 4), Westminster, Maryland 1947.
Peterson, Erik. “Pomerio, giuliano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1727. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pomerio-giuliano.
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Peterson, Erik. “Pomerio, giuliano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1727. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pomerio-giuliano.
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@incollection{ec9_pomerio_giuliano,
author = {Peterson, Erik},
title = {Pomerio, giuliano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1727},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/pomerio-giuliano}
}
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