Hesychius I (bishop of Vienne)
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Saint Isicius or Hesychius (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
Isicius or Hesychius (occasionally also in the variant forms 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 Apollinarius 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), Isicius 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), Isicius 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 Isicius 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, Isicius' episcopacy was later, probably between 475 and 490.[6]
Isicius seems to have died in about 490,[3] when his son Avitus succeeded him as bishop of Vienne.[7]
Cultus
Saint Isicius 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]
References
- ^ a b c Charvet 1761, p. 807.
- ^ a b Nominis.cef.fr: Saint Ysile
- ^ a b c d e Chevalier 1879, p. 7.
- ^ Duchesne 1894, p. 146.
- ^ a b c Duchesne 1894, p. 186.
- ^ a b Lucas, 2018 & 247-270.
- ^ a b c d Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse: Avit (saint) by Catherine Santschi
- ^ Bligny 1979, p. 22.
- ^ Diocèse de Grenoble-Vienne: Histoire
Sources
- Bligny, Bernard (1979). Histoire des diocèses de France:Grenoble (in French). Vol. 12. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne. p. 22.
- Charvet, Claude (1761). Histoire de la sainte église de Vienne. Lyon: Chez C. Cizeron.
- Chevalier, Ulysse (1879). Notice chronologico-historique sur les archevêques de Vienne: d'après des documents paléographiques inédits (in French). Vienne: E.-J. Savigné.
- Duchesne, Louis (1894). Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule. Provinces du Sud-Est (tome premier) (in French). Paris: Thorin et fils.
- Lucas, Gérard (2018). Vienne dans les textes grecs et latins: Chroniques littéraires sur l'histoire de la cité, des Allobroges à la fin du Ve siècle de notre ère (in French). MOM Éditions. p. 247-270. ISBN 9782356681850. - "Adon de Vienne, Chronique", especially the "Tableau récapitulatif de la liste des évêques de Vienne jusqu'à Avit"
Further reading
- Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau, Gallia christiana, vol. XVI, Paris, 1865, coll. 19 (online version) (in Latin)