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Mamertus
Sign in to saveMamertus (died c. 475) was the bishop of Vienne in Gaul, venerated as a saint. His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days." His feast day is the first of the Ice Saints.
Recent publications · Crossref
3 total works indexed
- Glover's "memoirs."
· 1870
- 28. De statu animae
· 2003
- Pop's "eastern priests."
· 1868
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Mamertus
- Saint.death_date
- AD 475
- Saint.feast_day
- 11 May
- Saint.venerated_in
- Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church
- Saint.image
- Mammertus.JPG
- Saint.imagesize
- 275px
- Saint.caption
- An engraving of Saint Mamertus from an 1878 book, Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints
- Saint.death_place
- Arles, Western Roman Empire
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3 sectionsContents
- Life
- Veneration
- References
Mamertus (died c. 475) was the bishop of Vienne in Gaul, venerated as a saint. His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, leading to "Rogation Days." His feast day is the first of the Ice Saints.
== Life == Prior to his elevation to the see of Vienne, little has been recorded about Mamertus' life. The fact that his brother, Claudianus Mamertus, the theological writer, received in his youth a sound training in rhetoric, and enjoyed the personal acquaintance of Bishop Eucherius of Lyons (434-50), suggests that the brothers belonged to a wealthy Gallic family from the neighbourhood of Lyons. Like his brother, St Mamertus was distinguished for his secular learning as well as theology, and, before his elevation to the episcopate, appears to have been married.