Hesychius I (bishop of Vienne)

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Saint Hesychius or Isicius (French: Isice or Hésychius; died c. 490) was a bishop of Vienne in the Dauphiné, France. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

Life

Origins

Hesychius or Isicius (occasionally also Isique[1] or Ysile[2]) is mentioned in the first extant list of the bishops of Vienne, the Catalogue of bishop Ado of Vienne (799-875)[3][4][5][6]

He married Audentia, with whom he had two sons, Avitus, his successor in the episcopal seat of Vienne, and Apollinaris of Valence, who became bishop of Valence.[1][7] He was apparently related to Sidonius Apollinaris,[7] prefect of Rome and later bishop of Clermont.

According to the historian Bernard Bligny (1979), Hesychius belonged to "one of the principal Gallo-Roman families of 'Bourgogne', the Hesychii, a branch of the Syagrii", of whom several members were bishops of Vienne (three) and Grenoble (four).[8]

Episcopacy

According to tradition, confirmed at least in part by the historian Ulysse Chevalier in his Notice chronologico-historique sur les archevêques de Vienne (1879), Hesychius was a senator before governing the diocese of Vienne.[1][3] The Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse states that he was descended from a family of the senatorial nobility and was closely related to the Emperor Avitus.[7]

In his Chronique (VI) Bishop Ado mentions Hesychius as the reigning bishop when Saint Severus of Vienne dedicated a church in Vienne at the time of the death of Saint Germanus of Auxerre.[5][3] Lucas however maintains that whereas the dedication must have taken place in 448 and Severus' death in 450, Hesychius' episcopacy was later, probably between 475 and 490.[6]

Hesychius seems to have died in about 490;[3] his son Avitus succeeded him as bishop of Vienne.[7]

Cultus

Saint Hesychius occurs in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum under the date of 16 March.[5][3] (The website Nominis.cef.fr gives for Saint Ysile the date of 15 March).[2] He is also celebrated in the diocese of Grenoble-Vienne on 1 July , together with Saint Martin and all the bishop saints of Vienne.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Charvet 1761, p. 807.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nominis.cef.fr: Saint Ysile
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Chevalier 1879, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Duchesne 1894, p. 146.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Duchesne 1894, p. 186.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lucas & 2018 247-270.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse: Avit (saint) by Catherine Santschi
  8. ↑ Bligny 1979, p. 22.
  9. ↑ Diocèse de Grenoble-Vienne: Histoire

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Further reading

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