Avit of Vienna

Sextus Alcimus Ecditius Avitus , in French Avit is a saint of the Catholic church and orthodoxe. He dies one February 5th towards 525.

Born with Vienna (Isere, France) towards 450, wire of the Senate or Esychius which, towards 475, is elected bishop of Vienna with died of saint Mamert of Vienna. Itself Marie and has children. Widower at 40 years, it distributes all his goods to the poor and withdraws himself in a monastery. In 490, it succeeds his father as bishop of Vienna. Excel bishop, theologist and poet, it worries about the poor of Vienna, but also about the life of the whole of the Church. One kept the letter by which, in 496, he congratulates Clovis to be converted.

Avit was related with the Roman Emperor Avitus. It chaired in 517 the Concile of Épaone where were adopted or given into force of important guns concerning the administration of the Church and the discipline of the clerks.

Subway of a province located in kingdom burgonde, the first goal of Avit was there to fight the Arianisme. If its influence on the kings Chilpéric and Gondebaud were not enough strong to convert them with the Catholicisme, it was decisive near wire of this last, Sigismond and Gondomar, and of the girl of Chilpéric II, Clotilde.

Excel diplomatic, good speaker, fertile writer, Avit left several treaties of Théologie, the Homélie S and the Poème S.

Avit of Vienna

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