Saint Agrice
Évêque de Trèves (+ 330)
Évêque de Trèves, nous le trouvons au concile d'Arles en 314. Sainte Hélène lui aurait donné la tunique du Christ qu'elle avait retrouvée à Jérusalem, ce qui est devenu le pèlerinage à la "Sainte Robe" de Trèves.
À Trèves en Allemagne, vers 330, saint Agrice, évêque, qui transforma en église
un palais offert par sainte Hélène.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5154/Saint-Agrice.html
Also
known as
Agricius of Trier
Agritius of Trèves
Agrizio di Treviri
Agrice
Aguy
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Nothing reliable is
recorded about his life before his service to the Church.
Patriarch of Antioch.
Friend and advisor to empress
Saint Helena.
Named bishop
of Treves,
Gaul (modern Trier,
Germany)
by Pope
Sylvester
I; served for 20 years. Attended the Council of Arles in 314.
Built many churches in the diocese, and
made provision for the Relics of Trier, which were collected by Saint Helena
during her travels
through the Holy Lands. Saint Maximus
and Saint
Paulinus taught
in Agrecius’s schools,
and he was acquainted with Saint
Athanasius. Because of his association with several saints and with
the relics of
others, he became the subject of much pious fiction.
Born
335 of
natural causes
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Trier“. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 January 2023. Web. 29 September 2026.
<http://catholicsaints.info/tag/name-agritius/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/tag/name-agritius/
St. Agrecius
Feastday: January 13
Death: 335
Bishop and missionary, a
trusted associate of St. Helena, empress. Little is documented about Agrecius
(also called Agricius) in his early years. He is believed to have been patriarch of Antioch when
he was named the bishop of
Treves (modern Trier), Germany. Pope Sylvester I (r. 314-335) named Agrecius to
this see at the request of St. Helena. Agrecius was also present at the Council
of Aries in 314. St. Athanasius
came to Treves in around 335 and found Agrecius building many new parish
churches. The Relics
of Trier, a collection associated with St. Helena's visit to the Holy Land and
entrusted to Agrecius, are believed to date to his episcopacy. Agrecius also
attracted saints and scholars to Treves or Trier. Sts. Maximus and Paulinus
taught in the schools
there. Agrecius served as bishop for
twenty years.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1185
Agrecius of Trier B (RM)
(also known as Agritius of Trèves)
Died c. 333. Saint Agrecius preceded Saint Maximinus as bishop of Trèves (Trier
in the Palatinate, Germany). He took part in the council of Arles in 314. An
11th century vita tells how Agrecius, with the help of Saint Helena of
Constantinople procured the Holy Coat of Trier, which is said to be the
seamless garment of Our Lord (Benedictines).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0113.shtml
St. Agricius
Bishop of Trier (Trèves),
in the fourth century (332 or 335). A local ninth-century tradition states that
he had been Patriarch ofAntioch,
and that he was translated to the See
of Trier by Pope Silvester, at the request of the Empress Helena. He
was present at the Council
of Arles in 314, and signed the acts immediately after the
presiding bishop of
that diocese,
thus indicating that in the fourth century Trier laid
claim to the primacy of Gaul and Germany,
a claim which his successor, St. Maximin, made good by signing in a similar way
the Decree of
the Council
of Sardica (343). St.
Athanasius, who came as an exile to Trier in
335 or 336, speaks of the large numbers of faithful whom he found there and the
number of churches in course of erection. The famous relics ofTrier (Holy
Coat, Nail of the True
Cross, the body of St.
Matthias the Apostle) are said by local tradition to have been brought
thither by Agricius. The schools of Trier became
famous under Agricius. Lactantius taught in them, and St.
Maximin and St.
Paulinus, later successors to the See
of Trier, came from Aquitaine to study there. Agricius died after an active
episcopate of twenty years.
Sources
KRAFT, in Kirchenlex., I,
352, 353; SAUERLAND, Trierer G. Quellen des XI. Jahrhunderts (1889); Acta SS.,
Jan. 1; DIEL, Die heiligen Maximinus und Paulinus, Bischofe v. Trier (1875).
Grey,
Francis. "St. Agricius." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 13 Jan.
2018 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01230b.htm>.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2026 by New Advent LLC.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01230b.htm
AGRICIUS OF TRIER, ST.
Fourth-century bishop of
Trier; d. c. 335. Agricius (Agrecius, Agritius) took part in the Council of
Arles (314) and was possibly the master and predecessor of Bishop Maximinus,
who welcomed the exiled St. athanasius to Trier. The name of Agricius is
connected with the legend of the "Holy Tunic of Trier," which he
allegedly received from the Empress (St.) Helena and brought to Trier along
with the bones of St. matthias and other relics. An eleventh-century legend
speaks of him as originally bishop of Antioch and says he changed Helena's
palace into a cathedral.
Feast: Jan. 13.
Bibliography: Acta
Sanctorum Jan. 2:55–63. H. V. Sauerland, Trierer Geschichtsquellen des XI. Jahrhunderts
(Trier 1889) 55–212. E. Ewig, Trierer Zeitschrift 21 (1952) 30–33. A. Heintz, Lexicon
für Theologie und Kirche, ed. J. Hofer and K. Rahner (Freiburg 1957–65) 1:207.
[P. Roche]
New Catholic Encyclopedia
SOURCE : https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/agricius-trier-st
Sant' Agrizio di Treviri Vescovo
Etimologia: Agrizio
= selvatico, dal latino
Martirologio
Romano: A Tréviri nella Gallia belgica, nell’odierna Germania,
sant’Agricio, vescovo, che trasformò in chiesa la reggia donata da
sant’Elena.
In un ms. del monastero
di San Massimino, è una Vita di Agrizio che costituisce la seconda parte della
Vita di sant'Elena: essa fu redatta quasi certamente nel sec. XI, e J. Marx ha
dimostrato con argomenti sufficientemente validi che ne fu autore, tra il 1030
e il 1045, un membro del clero della cattedrale di Treviri, forse Angibaldo,
cancelliere del vescovo Poppone, contrariamente a quanto supposto da H. V.
Sauerland, che ne aveva indicato l'autore in un monaco di San Massimino, forse
l'abate Berengoz (m.1125), che l'avrebbe scritta tra il 1070 e il 1090. Inoltre
Agrizio è ricordato come vescovo da Rabano, pur se non è indicata la sede, in
vari Calendari di Treviri al 13 gennaio, e dall'agiografo di San Massimino. Di
certo, si sa soltanto che Agrizio partecipò assieme all'esorcista Felice al
concilio d'Arles nel 314 e che morì prima del 336, poiché nel Chronicon di san
Gerolamo è scritto che nel 336, appunto, Atanasio fu accolto a Treviri da san
Massimino, successore di Agrizio. La Vita comunque, benché intessuta di
leggenda ha un valore storico-letterario non indifferente, in quanto è uno dei
più antichi documenti storiografici di Treviri e testimonia della vita e della
mentalità dominanti in quella Chiesa nel sec. X. Secondo questa Vita, dunque,
Agrizio, patriarca di Antiochia, su istanza di Elena, madre di Costantino, fu
nominato da papa Silvestro vescovo di Treviri quarto pastore di questa diocesi.
Treviri, a due secoli dalla prima predicazione di Eucario, Valerio e Materno,
era ricaduta in pieno paganesimo ed Agrizio, pur tra molte e gravi difficoltà,
intraprese l'opera di riedificazione del Cristianesimo, aiutato da Elena, che
gli fece dono di preziose reliquie del Salvatore, un chiodo della Croce e la
«Santa Tunica», e delle reliquie di Lazzaro e di Marta. La traslazione di
queste ultime, è rappresentata in un avorio di epoca bizantina raffigurante
Agrizio e papa Silvestro su un carro mentre portano l'urna a Treviri; ma
quest'avorio sembra riferirsi a un'altra traslazione. Silvestro avrebbe anche
donato ad Agrizio e ai suoi successori il primato sui vescovi di Gallia e
Germania: ma questo privilegio, inserito nella Vita, è senza dubbio apocrifo e
riecheggia probabilmente quello concesso da papa Giovanni XIII il 22 gennaio
969 al vescovo Thierry.
La data della morte di
Agrizio, da alcuni stabilita nel 344, da altri nel 368, è da indicarsi quasi
certamente nel 335 per la testimonianza di Gerolamo cui sopra abbiamo
accennato. Agrizio è festeggiato il 13 gennaio e, nella diocesi di Treviri,
anche il 9 gennaio. La traslazione delle reliquie si celebra il 29 maggio.
Autore: Pietro
Bertocchi
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/37420
Agritius (ook Agricius of
Agroecius) van Trier, Duitsland; 4e bisschop; † ca 330.
Feest 13 & 19 januari.
Hij zou geboren zijn rond
260. Historisch gesproken was hij de vierde bisschop van Trier. Naar het
schijnt had keizerin Helena († ca 328; feest 18 augustus) een actief aandeel in
zijn benoeming. Er is een overlevering die beweert dat de keizerin
oorspronkelijk uit Trier afkomstig was; dat zou haar bemoeienissen met de stad
kunnen verklaren. Om die reden vermoedt men ook dat Agritius er uiteindelijk
voor gezorgd heeft dat Sint Helena de Heilige Rok en de relieken van de apostel
Sint Matthias († ca 65? feest 14 mei), die zij in het Heilige Land meende
teruggevonden te hebben, naar Trier liet overbrengen. Rond 326 gaf de keizerin
hem de mogelijkheid op de plek van een voormalig keizerlijk paleis een
bisschoppelijke dubbelkerk te bouwen. De noordelijke kerk lag op de plek van de
huidige dom, en de zuidelijke op de plek van de huidige Liebfrauenkirche.
Uit de legende van Sint Helena
Volgens de legende werd door haar toedoen Jezus' kruis in Jeruzalem
teruggevonden; ook op die plek liet zij een kerk bouwen. Daarbij kwamen ook de
spijkers van Jezus' kruisiging weer tevoorschijn, de lans waarmee hij was
doorstoken en het opschrift met de letters 'INRI'. Ook Jezus' tunica, waar de
soldaten onder het kruis om hadden gedobbeld, omdat ze geweven was uit één stuk
kwam tevoorschijn. Die liet zij tezamen met het gebeente van de apostel
Matthias overbrengen naar Trier, de toenmalige keizerlijke residentie. Zij gaf
er de aanzet tot de bouw van de domkerk; daar werd de heilige tuniek bewaard en
voor pelgrims tentoongesteld. Zo ontstond er de devotie tot de Heilige Rok. Ook
in deze stad zou zij een klooster gesticht hebben.
Agritius nam deel aan de eerst bisschoppensynode van Arles in 314, waar hij als tweede ondertekende. Hij werd opgevolgd door Sint Maximinus († ca 350; feest 29 mei).
Later streden in Trier de monniken van de abdij van St-Matthias en die van
St-Maximinus over de vraag wie de ware relieken van hem bezat. Aartsbisschop
Richard († 1513) beslechtte de strijd in het voordeel van St-Maximinus.
[Bei.1983/1p:141; HiH.1987; Lin.1999; S&S.1994»01.19; Süt.1941; Dries van
den Akker s.j./2007.12.23]
© A. van den Akker
s.j. / A.W. Gerritsen
SOURCE : https://heiligen-3s.nl/heiligen/01/13/01-13-0330-agritius.php
Agritius - 19. Januar
Agritius
war Bischof von Trier und
nahm 314 an der Synode von Arles teil. Nach der Lebensbeschreibung des 11. Jh.s
ist er von der Kaiserin Helena auf den Bischofssitz von Trier berufen worden
und hat Herrenreliquien und die Gebeine des Apostels Matthias nach Trier gebracht.
Die Ausgrabungen im Trierer Dom haben bestätigt, dass zu seiner Zeit der
Kaiserpalast zum Dom umgebaut worden ist. Agritius ist um 329 gestorben.
Für "Agritius"
sind auch folgende Namen gebräuchlich:
Agritius
SOURCE : https://heilige.de/de/heilige/saints.261.html
Saint AGRICE ou AGRY, évêque de Treves (335) http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/janvier/agrice.pdf
