By Caesarius of Arles, William E. Klingshirn
Caesarius used to be born in 469/70 and served as Bishop of Arles from 502 till his loss of life in 542. initially knowledgeable as a monk at Lérins, he dedicated himself as Bishop to an formidable programme of church reform and Christianization encouraged via strict monastic criteria of piety. top referred to as a preacher, with a corpus of over 250 sermons, Caesarius additionally based a monastery whose rule he composed and presided over numerous very important church councils whose canons nonetheless live on. The files integrated during this quantity - so much by no means prior to translated into English - vividly illustrate Caesarius's profession and the social and non secular background of Provence at a time of far-reaching political switch, within which the sector used to be governed by means of a chain of Visigothic, Burgundian, Ostrogothic and, finally, Frankish kings. The 'Life of Caesarius', written presently after his loss of life by way of 5 clerics of his acquaintance, offers a first-hand list of the Bishop's achievements as pastor, flesh presser and wonderworker. The 'Testament' demonstrates Caesarius's efforts to endow and safeguard his monastery and within the strategy furnishes worthwhile information regarding diocesan landholdings. the gathering of twenty-four 'Letters' despatched and obtained by means of Caesarius chronicles his family members with fellow aristocrats and bishops and illuminates a large choice of themes, from consequences for incest to political intrigue between rival bishops. Taken jointly, those texts make clear a quarter and interval within which the Christian church, with its leaders, rituals and doctrines, used to be coming to play an more and more vital function within the day-by-day lives not just of noblemen and clerics, but additionally of standard males and women.
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A paraphrase of Caesarius, Regula virginurn 1. 28 LIFE OF CAESARIUS about 60 pounds56and contained 300 additional s 0 1 i d i . ~ ~With the gift] he made a request: “Take this, holy bishop. * had the dish appraised by his attendants and on the third day sold in public. With its proceeds he started to free many captives. 9 the king’s retainers announced to him, “Behold, we saw your lord’s gift put up for sale in the marketplace. With its price the holy Caesarius is ransoming crowds of captives.
I absolve myself by establishing this practice. Holy bishops who disdain to do this should realize that they will plead their cases on Judgment Day. ’’ Mernorirer here probably refers not to verbatim memory, but to that “memory for things” recommended to orators by the rules of classical rhetoric. See further Klingshirn (1994). 12-14. 72 This practice was instituted for the province. of Arles by the Council of Vaison (529). can. 2. CCSL 148A (1963). 78-9. For its background see Beck (1950). 267-9.
At Matins and other services he was the first to enter the church and the last to depart. Neither what he saw nor what he heard distracted the attention of the blessed man from the nectar of celestial blessings, with the result that his expression always seemed to shine forth like something heavenly. 12. 19 The holy Aeonius directed the blessed father Caesarius to succeed with the same revered authority and to govern with an abbot’s discipline the monastery that had recently k e n abandoned by its leader.