SAINT GALL
Évêque de Clermont
(489-553)
Saint Gall naquit vers l'an 489, à Clermont, en Auvergne, d'une des familles les plus distinguées du pays. Pour se soustraire aux obsessions de son père, qui voulait le lancer dans la voie des honneurs et le contraindre au mariage, il prit le parti de fuir la maison paternelle et s'adressa au monastère voisin, où il ne fut toutefois accepté qu'après le consentement de son père, qui finit par se soumettre au sacrifice en disant: "Que la Volonté de Dieu soit faite, et non la mienne." Le nouveau religieux marcha rapidement dans la voie de la perfection, et l'on ne savait qu'admirer le plus en lui, son innocence ou son austérité. La prière faisait ses délices; il avait un goût particulier pour le chant des louanges divines.
La renommée du jeune homme parvint jusqu'aux oreilles du roi Thierry, qui l'attacha à sa personne, alors qu'il n'était encore que diacre. Un jour, navré de voir une population païenne rendre de vains hommages aux idoles, il alla mettre le feu au temple et put à grand-peine échapper à la mort dont le menaçaient les païens furieux. Dans la suite, quand il racontait ce trait de sa jeunesse: "Hélas! disait-il, pourquoi me suis-je enfui? J'ai lâchement perdu la grâce du martyre."
A la mort de l'évêque de Clermont, le saint moine fut élu pour lui succéder. Il reçut le sacerdoce et la consécration épiscopale. Les vertus éclatantes du nouveau pasteur, sa douceur, son humilité, sa charité toute paternelle, lui eurent bientôt conquis l'affection générale.
Parmi toutes ses vertus, on eut lieu de remarquer une patience vraiment admirable. Un de ses prêtres, qu'il réprimandait justement, osa un jour le frapper à la tête; le bon évêque se contenta de le regarder avec compassion et sans lui adresser aucun reproche. Une autre fois, un prêtre l'accabla d'injures sur la place publique; le Saint lui répondit par le silence, et le coupable vint bientôt lui demander publiquement pardon.
Dieu rendit à la sainteté de l'évêque le témoignage des miracles. Un immense incendie menaçait de dévorer une grande partie de la ville; le pontife alla prier devant l'autel, prit à la main le livre des Évangiles et le jeta dans les flammes, qui s'éteignirent aussitôt. Il préserva Clermont de tout accident, par ses prières, pendant un tremblement de terre; dans un temps de peste il obtint de même la préservation de son peuple.
Le saint évêque donna, en mourant, les plus beaux exemples de résignation. Un grand nombre de miracles s'opérèrent à son tombeau. On l'invoque contre la fièvre.
Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950.
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Saint Gall
évêque de Clermont (✝ 551)
Né dans une famille chrétienne, il entre au monastère de Cournon. C'est là que l'évêque de Clermont vient le chercher pour le prendre avec lui. Saint Gall lui succède. Très aimé pour sa charité et son humilité, il accomplit de nombreux miracles, sauvant sa ville d'un incendie et d'une épidémie. C'était un homme d'action, et tout autant c'était un homme de prière.
À Clermont, en 551, saint Gall, évêque, homme humble et doux, qui fut l’oncle paternel de saint Grégoire de Tours.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7449/Saint-Gall.html
July 1.—ST. GAL, Bishop.
ST. GAL was born at Clermont in Auvergne, about the year 489. His father was of the first houses of that province, and his mother was descended from the family of Vettius Apagatus, the celebrated Roman who suffered at Lyons for the faith of Christ. They both took special care of the education of their son, and, when he arrived at a proper age, proposed to have him married to the daughter of a respectable senator. The Saint, who had taken a resolution to consecrate himself to God, withdrew privately from his father's house to the monastery of Cournon, near the city of Auvergne, and earnestly prayed to be admitted there amongst the monks; and having soon after obtained the consent of his parents, he with joy renounced all worldly vanities to embrace religious poverty. Here his eminent virtues distinguished him in a particular manner, and recommended him to Quintianus, Bishop of Auvergne, who promoted him to holy orders. The bishop dying in 527, St. Gal was appointed to succeed him, and in this new character his humility, charity, and zeal were conspicuous; above all, his patience in bearing injuries. Being once struck on the head by a brutal man, he discovered not the least emotion of anger or resentment, and by this meekness disarmed the savage of his rage. At another time, Evodius, who from a senator became a priest, having so far forgotten himself as to treat him in the most insulting manner, the Saint, without making the least reply, arose meekly from his seat and went to visit the churches of the city. Evodius was so touched by this conduct that he cast himself at the Saint's feet, in the middle of the street, and asked his pardon. From this time they both lived on terms of the most cordial friendship. St. Gal was favored with the gift of miracles, and died about the year 553.
SOURCE : http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots208.htm
St. Gal
Of the ninety-eight bishops who have occupied the see of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) the sixteenth and twenty-third bore the name of Gal, and both are numbered among the twenty-nine bishops of this church who are honoured as saints. The first and most illustrious was bishop from 527 to 551, the second, form 640 to 650. Born of a senatorial family of Auvergne, the first St. Gal early embraced the monastic life, and then became councillor to St. Quintianus, who he was to succeed in the See of Clermont. Tierry I, King of Austrasia, having invaded Auvergne, took Gal prisoner and attached him to the oratory of his palace. He regained his liberty some years later and returned to Clermont. Quintianus having died, Gal was chosen as his successor in 527. As bishophe was the intrepid defender of the rights of the Church against Sivigald, the governor appointed by Thierry, and after Sivigald's tragic death, the protector of his children from theprince's wrath. The chief event of his episcopatewas the Council of Clermont in 535. Fifteen prelates of the kingdom of Austrasia assisted at it under the presidency of Honoratus, Bishop of Bourges. They drew up seventeen canons, of which the first sixteen are contained in the Decretum of Gratian, and have become laws of the universal Church. The following is a summary of the most remarkable: bishops are prohibited from submitting to the deliberations of councils any private or temporal affairs, before having dealt with matters regarding discipline; clerics are forbidden to appeal to seculars in their disputes with bishops excommunication is pronounced against bishops who solicit the protection of princes in order to obtain the episcopacy, or who cause forged decrees of election to be signed. The council also declares itself forcibly against the marriages of Christians with Jews, marriages between relatives, and the misconduct of the clergy. In 541 Gal took part in the fourth Council of Orléans, which promulgated energeticdecrees for the abolition of slavery, and in 549 in the fifth, which condemned the errors of Eutyches andNestorius. His feast is celebrated on 3 July.
Fournet, Pierre Auguste. "St. Gal." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 14 Oct. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm>.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm
Voir aussi : http://nobility.org/2011/06/30/born-gallic-nobility-he-renounced-all-to-embrace-religious-poverty/
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Saint Gall
évêque de Clermont (✝ 551)
Né dans une famille chrétienne, il entre au monastère de Cournon. C'est là que l'évêque de Clermont vient le chercher pour le prendre avec lui. Saint Gall lui succède. Très aimé pour sa charité et son humilité, il accomplit de nombreux miracles, sauvant sa ville d'un incendie et d'une épidémie. C'était un homme d'action, et tout autant c'était un homme de prière.
À Clermont, en 551, saint Gall, évêque, homme humble et doux, qui fut l’oncle paternel de saint Grégoire de Tours.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7449/Saint-Gall.html
July 1.—ST. GAL, Bishop.
ST. GAL was born at Clermont in Auvergne, about the year 489. His father was of the first houses of that province, and his mother was descended from the family of Vettius Apagatus, the celebrated Roman who suffered at Lyons for the faith of Christ. They both took special care of the education of their son, and, when he arrived at a proper age, proposed to have him married to the daughter of a respectable senator. The Saint, who had taken a resolution to consecrate himself to God, withdrew privately from his father's house to the monastery of Cournon, near the city of Auvergne, and earnestly prayed to be admitted there amongst the monks; and having soon after obtained the consent of his parents, he with joy renounced all worldly vanities to embrace religious poverty. Here his eminent virtues distinguished him in a particular manner, and recommended him to Quintianus, Bishop of Auvergne, who promoted him to holy orders. The bishop dying in 527, St. Gal was appointed to succeed him, and in this new character his humility, charity, and zeal were conspicuous; above all, his patience in bearing injuries. Being once struck on the head by a brutal man, he discovered not the least emotion of anger or resentment, and by this meekness disarmed the savage of his rage. At another time, Evodius, who from a senator became a priest, having so far forgotten himself as to treat him in the most insulting manner, the Saint, without making the least reply, arose meekly from his seat and went to visit the churches of the city. Evodius was so touched by this conduct that he cast himself at the Saint's feet, in the middle of the street, and asked his pardon. From this time they both lived on terms of the most cordial friendship. St. Gal was favored with the gift of miracles, and died about the year 553.
SOURCE : http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/lots/lots208.htm
St. Gal
Of the ninety-eight bishops who have occupied the see of Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergne) the sixteenth and twenty-third bore the name of Gal, and both are numbered among the twenty-nine bishops of this church who are honoured as saints. The first and most illustrious was bishop from 527 to 551, the second, form 640 to 650. Born of a senatorial family of Auvergne, the first St. Gal early embraced the monastic life, and then became councillor to St. Quintianus, who he was to succeed in the See of Clermont. Tierry I, King of Austrasia, having invaded Auvergne, took Gal prisoner and attached him to the oratory of his palace. He regained his liberty some years later and returned to Clermont. Quintianus having died, Gal was chosen as his successor in 527. As bishophe was the intrepid defender of the rights of the Church against Sivigald, the governor appointed by Thierry, and after Sivigald's tragic death, the protector of his children from theprince's wrath. The chief event of his episcopatewas the Council of Clermont in 535. Fifteen prelates of the kingdom of Austrasia assisted at it under the presidency of Honoratus, Bishop of Bourges. They drew up seventeen canons, of which the first sixteen are contained in the Decretum of Gratian, and have become laws of the universal Church. The following is a summary of the most remarkable: bishops are prohibited from submitting to the deliberations of councils any private or temporal affairs, before having dealt with matters regarding discipline; clerics are forbidden to appeal to seculars in their disputes with bishops excommunication is pronounced against bishops who solicit the protection of princes in order to obtain the episcopacy, or who cause forged decrees of election to be signed. The council also declares itself forcibly against the marriages of Christians with Jews, marriages between relatives, and the misconduct of the clergy. In 541 Gal took part in the fourth Council of Orléans, which promulgated energeticdecrees for the abolition of slavery, and in 549 in the fifth, which condemned the errors of Eutyches andNestorius. His feast is celebrated on 3 July.
The
second St. Gal succeed St. Cæsarius; he was a man of great sanctity, and was one of the
most eminentbishops in Gaul. Little, however, is
known of his life. His feast is kept 1 November
Fournet, Pierre Auguste. "St. Gal." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 14 Oct. 2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm>.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm
Voir aussi : http://nobility.org/2011/06/30/born-gallic-nobility-he-renounced-all-to-embrace-religious-poverty/
