MAMERTUS, Bishop of Vienne, Saint. - He is commemorated on May 11. Nothing is known of his life before he became bishop. He was already governing the Church of Vienne in 463, when Pope Hilary had to write to Leontius, bishop of Arles, so that the question of the ordination of the bishop of Die performed by M., usurping a right that belonged to the see of Arles, might be examined at the annual Synod of Gaul.

In this letter and in the other that the same Pope wrote to the bishops of Gaul, M. is described as ambitious, intemperate, proud, rebellious against the pontifical dispositions and threatened with deposition. Sidonius Apollinaris, on the other hand,

Avitus and St. Gregory of Tours praise him as a man of spotless morals, of holy life and zealous for the good of souls. M. has remained famous in the history of the Church because in 474 he instituted the Rogations (v.) to propitiate God on account of the calamities that afflicted his Church. M. in 475; he was buried in the church of the Apostles outside the walls.

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BIBL.: Jaffé-Wattenbach, 556 ff.; Tillemont, XVI, pp. 104-126; Acta SS. Mati, II, Paris 1866, pp. 628-31; L. Duchesne, Fastes episcopaux de l'ancienne Gaule, I, ibid. 1907, p. 205; Martyr. Hieronymianum, p. 248; Martyr. Romanum, p. 184.

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