Biography of st eleutherius the great

Saints of the Catholic Church. Eleutherius was a Greek from Nicopolis in Epirus. Relics of this saint were also preserved in the monastery of St. Kirsch, J. De Rossi, it is true, dates the martyrdom of St. He is linked to a number of legends, one of them credited him with receiving a letter from " Lucius , King of Britain ", but which is now generally considered to be a forgery.

His feast is given in martyrologies on 20 or 21 July, but is usually celebrated on the former date. Bishop of Rome.

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London: Henry G. Butler's Lives of the Saints. Stroud, England: History Press. De Rossi , it is true , dates the martyrdom of St. The saint's biography in its present form was really an invention of Henri of Tournai in the twelfth century. Tools Tools. Search: Submit Search. On his death-bed he confided his flock to his lifelong friend, St.

This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M. Life [ edit ]. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Death [ edit ]. Soter, the following pope, whom he succeeded about Just when the Roman Church took its definite stand against Montanism is not certainly known. Later tradition has his body moved to the church of San Giovanni della Pigna , near the pantheon.

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Historically speaking, the fact is quite improbable, and is rejected by all recent critics. IV — via Wikisource. Theodore, whom some give as his immediate predecessor, was either a bishop of Tours , whose name was placed by mistake on the episcopal list of Tournai , or simply a missionary who ministered to the Christians scattered throughout the small Frankish Kingdom of Tournai.

In the document, he holds, from which the compiler of the "Liber Pontificalis" drew his information the name found was not Britanio, but Britio. His cult, however, is well established; there is record of a recovery of his relics during the episcopate of Hedilo in or , and a translation of them by Bishop Baudoin in or , and another in II, Ch.