Name
Vivianus/Bibianus, mid-5th c. bishop of Saintes
Saint ID
S01282
Number in BH
BHL 1324-1330
Reported Death Not Before
450
Reported Death Not After
500
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops
| ID | Title | E02448 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Confessors, in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. Overview entry. | E02670 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (57), tells of the tomb of *Vivianus/Bibianus (bishop of Saintes, mid-5th c., S01282) in Saintes (western Gaul), and of a written Life; the sick are cured at his grave. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588. | E04933 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 28 August. | E04997 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 25 October. | E05555 | Venantius Fortunatus writes eleven books of Poems in Latin, mainly in western and north-western Gaul, 565/600; many of them with reference to saints. Overview entry. | E05633 | Venantius Fortunatus, in a poem (1.12) On the basilica of saint *Bibianus (Vivianus/Bibianus, bishop of Saintes, mid-5th c., S01282) in Saintes (south-west Gaul), recounts how Leontius, bishop of Bordeaux, completed the building begun by two bishops of Saintes, and how Leontius' wife, Placidina, embellished the tomb of the saint; all in 530/571. Written in Latin in Gaul, 565/576. | E06280 | The Latin Life of *Vivianus/Bibianus (bishop of Saintes, mid-5th c., S01282) portrays Vivianus as an ideal bishop, who protected his town from Gothic oppression and Saxon pirates; in Toulouse he visited the shrine of *Saturninus (bishop and martyr of Toulouse, S00289), and in Saintes installed relics sent from Rome; relics of Vivianus are received with joy in a city of the East. Written in Gaul, probably in the 6th c. |
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