Buste de Saint-Phébade dans la basilique Saint-Sernin
de Toulouse.
Saint Phébade
Évêque d'Agen (+ v. 393)
Confesseur.
Premier évêque indiscuté d'Agen. Il écrivit plusieurs
ouvrages contre les hérésies, dont un sur la pureté de la foi et l'unité de
l'Église, le "De Fide". Ami de saint Hilaire
de Poitiers et très lié à saint Ambroise
de Milan, il est cité par saint Jérôme dans
son livre "Des hommes illustres".
Saint Phébade, évêque d'Agen - vers 345 - Saint
Phébade fut le premier évêque connu d'Agen. Il dut sa notoriété au combat qu'il
mena aux côtés de saint Hilaire contre l'arianisme et le pouvoir politique
romain.
En effet, de 360 à 385, les évêques d'occident
provoqués par l'avancée de l'arianisme, eurent à réfléchir sur ce qu'ils
pouvaient dire de Dieu. Saint-Phébade se situe dans ce créneau historique et
fut l'un des principaux acteurs de cette réflexion. (Diocèse
d'Agen - les Saints fondateurs - l'Église en Lot-et-Garonne où il est
fêté le 26 avril)
Comme saint Hilaire a marqué l’église de Poitiers ou
saint Irénée celle de Lyon, saint Phébade fut un évêque d’Agen (vers 350)
célèbre en son temps. À l’époque troublée des premiers siècles du
christianisme, il n’hésita pas à intervenir dans les querelles théologiques et
au cours des conciles, notamment à propos des hérésies. Aujourd’hui, le
contexte a changé. Mais il reste que bien des opinions courantes ne
correspondent guère à la foi de l’Église. D’où l’idée de ce livre: reprendre
quelques points essentiels de la foi catholique à la lumière de certains textes
ou affirmations de saint Phébade. Ainsi de la Trinité, de la divinité de Jésus,
du Père, du rôle du Christ dans le salut, du jugement dernier, de l’identité de
l’Esprit, de la place de l’Église ou la résurrection des morts. «Ce
Jésus est notre Seigneur - Petite catéchèse à l'école de saint Phébade»
Le 25 avril au martyrologe romain: À Agen, vers 393,
saint Phébade, évêque, qui écrivit un ouvrage contre les ariens et protégea son
peuple de l’hérésie.
Martyrologe romain
Voici sa profession de foi: Il faut s'attacher, comme nous l'avons dit, à la règle de foi que le Fils est dans le Père, que le Père est dans le Fils: qui reconnaissant une seule substance en deux personnes, donne la notion exacte de l'économie du mystère dans la divinité... Donc le Père est Dieu et le fils est Dieu parce que en Dieu le Père il y a Dieu le fils.
Pour ne scandaliser personne, j'ajoute que l'Esprit procède de Dieu, d'autant
que Dieu qui a une seconde personne, en a une troisième dans le Saint-Esprit...
Aussi l'Esprit est autre que le Fils de même que le Fils est autre que le Père.
Ainsi il y a une troisième personne dans l'Esprit comme il y une seconde dans
le Fils; tout cela ne forme qu'un Dieu: les trois ne font qu'un...
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1034/Saint-Phebade.html
Also known as
Faebadius
Febadio
Foebadius
Febadius
Fiari
Phébade
Phébadius
Phoebadius
Profile
Priest. Fouth
century bishop of Agen, France.
Presided over several Councils including Rimini in 359,
Valence in 374,
and Zaragoza in 380.
Friend of Saint Hilary
of Poitiers with whom he waged a successful fight against Arianism in Gaul; his
only surviving writing is Contra
Arianos (Against Arianism).
c.392 in Agen,
Aquitaine (in modern France)
of natural causes
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MLA Citation
“Saint Phaebadius of Agen“. CatholicSaints.Info.
25 April 2017. Web. 23 December 2021.
<http://catholicsaints.info/saint-phaebadius-of-agen/>
SOURCE : http://catholicsaints.info/saint-phaebadius-of-agen/
Lives
of Illustrious Men – Phoebadius the bishop
Article
Phoebadius, bishop of Agen, in Gaul, published a book
Against the Arians. There are said to be other works by him, which I have not
yet read. He is still living, infirm with age.
MLA Citation
Saint Jerome.
“Phoebadius the bishop”. Lives of Illustrious Men,
translated by Ernest Cushing Richardson. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 November
2014. Web. 23 December 2021.
<https://catholicsaints.info/lives-of-illustrious-men-phoebadius-the-bishop/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/lives-of-illustrious-men-phoebadius-the-bishop/
Article
(Saint) Bishop (April 25)
(4th
century) A Bishop of Agen in
the South of France,
distinguished on the Catholic side
in the controversy with the Arians.
He has left us some valuable writings in
defence of the Faith.
He appears to have lived to a great age and to have been still alive in
A.D. 392.
MLA Citation
Monks of Ramsgate. “Phaebadius”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
22 October 2016. Web. 23 December 2021.
<https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-phaebadius/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-phaebadius/
(also
known as Fiari, Phebade)
Died
c. 392. When the second Arian confession of faith was drawn up at Sirmium in
358, Bishop Saint Phaebadius of Agen, southern Gaul, worked with Saint Hilary
of Poitiers to successfully stamp out the heresy in Gaul. His extant book in
defense of the faith is so masterfully written that it increases our regret
that his others works have been lost. Phaebadius was one of the best known
prelates of his time and presided over several councils. At the council of
Rimini in 359, Phaebadius and Saint Servatus of Tongres zealously opposed the
Arians; however, Ursacius and Valens tricked them into accepting a captious
proposition. When the two bishops realized the implications, they declared that
they had been deceived and condemned what they had done at Rimini. To repair
the evil he had unwittingly done, Saint Phaebadius redoubled his opposition
against the heresy during the council of Paris in 360 and that at Saragossa,
Spain, in 380. There is an excellent treatise refuting the heretical act of the
council of Rimini, which Phaebadius is believed to have authored. It is
translated into Greek in the 49th discourse of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. Saint
Phaebadius was a decrepit old man when Saint Jerome mentioned him among
"the illustrious men" of the Church (Benedictines, Husenbeth).
SOURCE
: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0425.shtml
St.
Phæbadius, Bishop and Confessor
[Called
in Gascony Fiari; Bishop of Agen, in Gaul.] WHEN the second
Arian confession of faith was drawn up at Sirmium, and subscribed to by Osius,
in 358, St. Phæbadius wrote against it with great success, and by his zeal put
a check to that spreading evil, so that in Aquitain it was universally
rejected. His book against the Arians, which is extant, 1 is written in so masterly a
manner, with such solidity, justness, and close reasoning, as to make us regret
the loss of his other works. In it he confutes this heretical confession of
faith, and even in the more innocent parts discovers the secret wiles and
subtle equivocations of its authors. In the council of Rimini, in 359, he
zealously opposed the Arians, together with St. Servatius of Tongres. These two
prelates were at length imposed upon by the artful practices of Ursacius and
Valens, to admit a captious proposition, without perceiving the poison which it
contained. But, discovering afterwards the snare, they declared they had been
deceived, and condemned what they had done at Rimini. 2 St. Phæbadius, to repair this
evil, redoubled his zeal in the council of Paris, in 360, and in the council of
Saragossa, in Spain, in 380, and joined St. Delphinus, archbishop of Bourdeaux,
his metropolitan, in all his labours for the faith. We have a learned, elegant,
and solid treatise, in which the council of Rimini is confuted, and Ursacius
and Valens attacked, of which Dom Rivet proves 3 St. Phæbadius to have been the
author. A Greek translation of this piece is published among the discourses of
St. Gregory Nazianzen, it being the forty-ninth. St. Phæbadius was alive in a
very decrepid old age, in 392, when St. Jerom wrote his catalogue of
illustrious men. The church of Agen places his festival on the 25th of April.
See Tillemont, t. 6, p. 427; and Rivet. Hist. Liter. p. 266, and p. 30, t. 1,
part 2.
Note
1. Bibl. Patrum, t. 4, p. 400. [back]
Note 2. St. Hilar. Fragm. 11; St. Hieron. l.
4. in Lucifer. n. 6; Theodoret, l. 2. Hist. c. 17; St. Sulpic. Sev. Hist. l. 2.
n. 16. [back]
Note
3. Hist. Liter. de la Fr. t. 1, part 2, p.
273. [back]
SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/210/4/254.html
San Febadio di Agen Vescovo
† 393 circa
Martirologio Romano: Ad Agen nella regione
dell’Aquitania, in Francia, san Febadio, vescovo, che scrisse un’opera contro
gli ariani e protesse il suo popolo dall’eresia.
