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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Archdeacon of Lyon, in times of the emperor Leo

Saint ID

S02846

Reported Death Not Before

457

Reported Death Not After

500

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Lesser clergy
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E02675Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Confessors (62), tells of an unnamed *Archdeacon of Lyon (S02846), summoned to Rome, who there expels an evil spirit from the daughter of the emperor Leo; the emperor sent magnificent gold gifts to the church of Lyon (south-east Gaul), but their carrier substituted objects of silver; the carrier and his goldsmith accomplice come to a bad end. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 587/588.