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  1. Caesarius of Arles (Latin: Caesarius Arelatensis; 468/470 – 27 August 542 AD), sometimes called "of Chalon" (Cabillonensis or Cabellinensis) from his birthplace Chalon-sur-Saône, was the foremost ecclesiastic of his generation in Merovingian Gaul.

  2. In 1251, Jean, Archbishop of Arles, held a council near Avignon (Concilium Insculanum), among whose thirteen canons is one providing that the sponsor at baptism is bound to give only the white robe in which the infant is baptized.

  3. Saint Caesarius of Arles ; feast day August 27) was a leading prelate of Gaul and a celebrated preacher whose opposition to the heresy of Semi-Pelagianism (q.v.) was one of the chief influences on its decline in the 6th century. At age 20, he entered the monastery at Lérins, Fr., and, having been.

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  4. Jul 29, 2016 · Caesarius of Arles is one of these, in good part perhaps because the established mold for writing and teaching about the tradition of spirituality and intellectuality which Roman culture contributed to early medieval Europe had its heroes defined for it early.

  5. One of the most discerning scholarly eyes of the early twentieth century saw him as the virtual prophet of early medieval Gaul.1 A generation after Godefroid Kurth expressed this judgment, another distinguished historian, Rene Aigrain, observed that Caesarius had given the Church of early medieval Gaul its.

  6. Caesarius's sermons, as the first elucidation of a tithe distinct from almsgiving, offer us a privileged insight into why the ecclesiastical tithe was developed.

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  8. Jul 28, 2009 · Caesarius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul. By William E. Klingshirn. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix + 317 pp.

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