Marius Aventicensis
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Marius Aventicensis or, popularly, Marius of Avenches (532 – 31 December 596) was the
Life
What is known of him, aside from his chronicle, is from the inscription on his tomb in the church of
His metrical tomb inscription of unknown date, published in Gallia Christiana,[citation needed] extols him as an ideal bishop; as a skilled goldsmith who made the sacred liturgical vessels with his own hands; as a protector and benefactor of the poor who ploughed his own land; as a man of prayer, and as a scholar. In 587 he consecrated a proprietary church built at his expense on property of his own at Paterniacum (Payerne). The church of Saint Thyrsus was rededicated at an early date to Saint Marius.
Chronicle writer
His brief chronicle is a continuation of the Chronicon Imperiale usually said to be the chronicle of
The chronicle has been frequently published: first by
, Auctores antiqui, XI (1893), 232–9; and by Justin Favrod with a French translation, La chronique de Marius d'Avenches (455–581) (Lausanne 1991).Notes
- ^ the inscription is published in Monumenta Germ. Scriptores, XXIV, 795.
- ^ Henry Wace, A dictionary of Christian biography, literature, sects and doctrines.
- ISBN 2-13-053409-0, p. 16.
Further reading
- Justin Favrod, "Les sources et la chronologie de Marius d'Avenches", Francia 17 (1990), pp. 1–22.
External links
- Online MGH version of the Chronicle
- Catholic Encyclopedia : St. Marius Aventicus
- Henry Wace, Dictionary of Christian Biography: Marius, bp. of Lausanne, from the Christian Classics Ethereal library, originally published in 1911, republished in 1999
- Chronicon (in Latin)