Eucherius of Lyon

Eucherius of Lyon ( * before 410, † 450 ) was Bishop of Lyon and Saint.

Life

Eucherius came from a patrician family of the requested viewed Gaul. In 410 he moved to a public career with his wife Galla and his sons Salonius and Veranus, the later bishops of Geneva and Vence, on the monastery island of Lerins, then, leaving the children with their teachers Vincent of Lérins and Salvian of Marseille on the neighboring island Lero (now Sainte -Marguerite ) above, where a strictly ascetic monastery headed by Honoratus of Arles was. He stood among others corresponded in contact with Paulinus of Nola. To 434 Eucherius was bishop of Lyons. 441 he took part in the Synod of Orange.

There are several monastic writings ( De laude Eremi, De contemptu mundi, lost are his excerpts from the dedicated to him by its author Conlationes sanctorum patrum of John Cassian and a work on the true philosophy ) known from Eucherius of Lyon, he also has two exegetical reference works written, which were very popular in the Middle Ages and in the monastic teaching were used. It is the Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, allegorical interpretations of figurative phrases in the Bible, and the Instructiones, explanations of biblical introduction questions, difficult Bible passages, Hebrew and Greek proper names and foreign words.

His most famous work is the Passio Agaunensium martyrum about the martyrdom of the Theban Legion and St. Mauritius, which he wrote about the year 430/40. Other bishops addressed these originally limited to the current Swiss legend on Wallis, and extended it to Bonn (St. Cassius and St. Florentius ), Cologne ( St. Gereon ) and Xanten ( St. Victor and St. Mallosus ).

Eucherius is venerated as a saint. His feast day is November 16.