Saint Avitus of Vienne
- Also known as
- Alcimus Ecdicius
- Memorial
- 5 February
- Profile
- Son of Saint Isychius, a former Roman senator, and the bishop of Vienne.
Brother of Saint Apollinaris.
Bishop of Vienne, succeeding his father.
Fought Arianism, ransomed captives, and supported papal authority as the mainstay of religious unity.
Converted Sigismund, king of Burgundy, and was well thought of personally by the pagan Franks and Arian Burgundians.
Presided over the Council of Epaon in 517.
He wrote a long, elegant narrative poem describing original sin, expulsion from paradise, the Flood, and crossing of the Red Sea; Milton made use of it when writing Paradise Lost.
- Born
- c.451 in Vienne, Gaul (in modern France)
- Died
- c.525 of natural causes;
relics at Vienne
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
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New Catholic Dictionary
Books of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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