Hilary of Arles

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Hilary of Arles

Saint Hilary of Arles (c. 403-449) was a bishop of Arles.

In early youth he entered the abbey

Abbey

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of Lérins

Lérins Abbey

L?rins Abbey is a Cistercian monastery on the island of ?le Saint-Honorat, one of the L?rins Islands, on the French Riviera, with an active monastic community....
then presided over by his kinsman Honoratus (Saint Honoré), and succeeded Honoratus in the bishopric of Arles in 429. Following the example of St Augustine, he is said to have organized his cathedral clergy into a "congregation," devoting a great part of their time to social exercises of ascetic religion.

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Saint Hilary of Arles (c. 403-449) was a bishop of Arles.

In early youth he entered the abbey

Abbey

An abbey , is a Christianity monastery or convent, under the government of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community....
of Lérins

Lérins Abbey

Vienne

Vienne is a d?partement of France, named after the Vienne River....
and Narbonne

Narbonne

Narbonne is a commune in France in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon r?gion in France. It lies from Paris in the Aude d?partement in France, of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
, and attempted to exercise the sort of primacy over the church of south Gaul

Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
, which seemed implied in the vicariate granted to his predecessor Patroclus of Arles (417).

Hilarius deposed the bishop of Besançon, Chelidonus, for ignoring this primacy, and for claiming a metropolitan dignity for Besançon. An appeal was made to Rome, and Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I

Pope Leo I, or Pope Saint Leo the Great, was pope from 29 September, 440 to 10 November, 461.He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the earliest pope of the Roman Catholic Church to have received the title "the Great"....
used it to extinguish the Gallican vicariate (AD. 444). Hilarius was deprived of his rights to consecrate bishops, call synod

Synod

A synod is a council of a Ecclesia , usually a Christianity church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. An ecumenical council is so named because it is a synod of the whole church ...
s, or oversee the church in the province, and the pope secured the edict

Edict

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of Valentinian III

Valentinian III

Flavius Placidus Valentinianus , known in English as Valentinian III, was among the last Western Roman Emperors ....
, so important in the history of the Gallican church, "ut episcopis Gallicanis omnibusque pro lege esset quidquid apostolicae sedis auctoritas sanxisset." The papal claims were made imperial law, and violation of them subject to legal penalties (Novellae Valent. iii. tit. 16).

Hilarius died in 449, and his name was later introduced into the Roman martyr

Martyr

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ology for commemoration on May 5. During his lifetime he had a great reputation for learning and eloquence as well as for piety

Piety

In spiritual terminology, piety is a virtue. While different people may understand its meaning differently, it is generally used to refer either to religion or to spirituality, or often, a combination of both....
; his extant works (Vita S. Honorati Arelatensis episcopi and Metrum in Genesin) compare favourably with any similar literary productions of that period.

A poem, De providentia, usually included among the writings of Prosper of Aquitaine

Prosper of Aquitaine

Saint Prosper of Aquitaine , a Christian writer and disciple of Saint Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle....
, is sometimes attributed to Hilary of Arles.

Hilary of Arles

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