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2 unusual facts about Marius Aventicensis


Marius Aventicensis

His metrical tomb inscription of unknown date, published in Gallia Christiana, extols him as an ideal bishop; as a skilled goldsmith who made the sacred liturgical vessels with his own hands; as a protector and benefactor of the poor who ploughed his own land; as a man of prayer, and as a scholar.

It has been frequently published — first by Chifflet in André Duchesne's Historiæ Francorum Scriptores, I (1636), 210-214; again by Migne in Patrologia Latina, LXXII, 793-802, by Theodor Mommsen in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiqui, XI (1893), 232-9, and by Justin Favrod with a French translation: La chronique de Marius d'Avenches (455–581) (Lausanne 1991).



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