Charlotte de Ferré présentée
par saint Lézin, vitrail, La Chapelle-Janson (Ille-et-Vilaine), église Saint Lézin
Saint Lézin
Évêque
d'Angers (6ème s.)
Il fut d'abord le
connétable du roi Clotaire, puis gouverneur des provinces armoricaines. Il vint
habiter à Angers qui en était alors la capitale. Il remplit toutes ces
fonctions avec conscience, habileté et honnêteté. Puis, un beau jour, il
changea d'orientation et se retira pour devenir moine dans l'abbaye de
Châlonne. C'est là qu'à la mort de l'évêque d'Angers, les angevins se souvenant
de lui, le tirent du monastère et l'élisent pour être leur évêque. Il mit au
service de l'Église les qualités dont il avait fait la preuve durant son
gouvernement civil.
Une localité perpétue sa
mémoire: Saint Lézin-49120.
Un internaute nous écrit:
"D'après l'abbé
Louis Tardif, auteur de 'Saint Lézin, évêque d'Angers', ce saint a vécu au VIe
siècle et non au VIIe. Il serait né entre 530 et 540.
J'habite St-Lézin et je
connais l'histoire du Saint patron de mon village, dont les habitants sont les
Liciniens (du latin Licinius)"
Au 1er novembre au
martyrologe romain: À Angers, vers 606, saint Lézin, évêque, à qui le pape
saint Grégoire
le Grand recommanda les moines romains qui gagnaient l’Angleterre.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/8835/Saint-Lezin.html
Commission
des Ardoisières d'Angers, La légende de Saint Lézin, patron des ardoisiers. Larivière et Cie, circa 1890
Also
known as
Lesin
Lezin
Licinius
13
February on some calendars
21 June (translation
of relics)
Profile
Born to the French nobility. Count of
Anjou. He gave up the title and worldly life to become a monk. Bishop of Angers, France,
ordained by Saint Gregory
of Tours.
Born
c.618 of
natural causes
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Lucinus of
Angers“. CatholicSaints.Info. 26 April 2022. Web. 24 May 2026.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-lucinus-of-angers/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-lucinus-of-angers/
Article
(Lezin) (Saint) Bishop (February
13) (6th
century) A nobleman of the Court of Clotaire, King of Soissons, in France.
He became a cleric and was made Bishop of Angers, which See he illustrated by
his zeal and by the sanctity of his life during a long Episcopate. He passed
away in some year of the reign of Clotaire II (probably about A.D. 618). Pope
Saint Vitalian is said to have canonised Saint Lezin.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Lucinius”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info.
9 November 2014. Web. 24 May 2026. <https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-lucinius/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-lucinius/
St. Licinius
Feastday: November 1
Death: 616
Bishop and Frankish
nobleman. TheCount of Anjou under the Merovingian king Chilperic, he gave up
his title and became a monk. However, after a number of years, he was
chosen bishop of
Angers, receiving ordination at the hands of St. Gregory of Tours. According to
tradition, Licinius desired to retire from his office, but was prevented from
doing so by the people of Angers.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4285
Licinius of Angers B (RM)
(also known as Lesin,
Lucinus)
Born c. 540; died c. 618;
feast day formerly November 1. When Licinus was about 20, he was sent to the
court of his cousin King Clotaire I. His prudence and valor distinguished him
both in the court and in the army, and he carried out all his Christian duties
with diligently. Fasting and prayer were familiar to him, and his heart was
always raised to God. After King Chilperic made him count of Anjou, about 578,
Licinus consented to take a wife. On their wedding day, the lady contracted
leprosy. He immediately decided to renounce the world and entered holy orders
two years later.
Licinus found true joy
within a community of ecclesiastics, engaging in the exercises of piety,
austere penance, and meditaton on the holy scriptures. The people, clergy, and
the court of Clotaire II all concurred that Licinus should assume the
episcopacy of Angers when Bishop Audouin died. Overcoming his own humility, he
was consecrated by Saint Gregory of Tours.
As bishop, his time and
his substance were divided in feeding the hungry, comforting and releasing
prisoners, and curing the bodies and souls of his people. Though he was careful
to keep up exact discipline in his diocese, he was more inclined to indulgence
than rigor, in imitation of the tenderness which Jesus Christ showed for
sinners. He won souls, not simply by strong preaching, but more through an
exemplary life, miracles, and daily prayer for the souls in his care. He longed
for greater solitude, and tried to resign his bishopric, but his priests,
people, and fellow bishops refused to entertain such a thought. So he spent the
rest of his life tending his flock--doing God's will and not his own. His
patience was perfected by continual infirmities in his last years.
Licinus was buried in the
monastery church of St. John Baptist, which he had founded for his frequent
retreats. It is now a collegiate church, and enriched with his relics. At
Angers he is commemorated on June 8 (the day of his consecration) and on June
21 when his relics were translated or taken up, 1169, in the time of Henry II,
king of England, count of Anjou. His vita, based on the testimony of his
disciples, was written soon after his death; and again by Marbodius, archdeacon
of Angers, afterwards bishop of Rennes, both in Bollandus (Benedictines,
Encyclopedia (Nov.), Husenbeth).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0213.shtml
February 13
St. Licinius, Bishop of
Angers, Confessor
[Called by the French
Lesin.] HE was born of a noble family, allied to the kings of
France, about the year 540. He was applied to learning as soon as he was
capable of instruction, and sent to the court of King Clotaire I. (whose cousin
he was) being about twenty years of age. He signalized himself by his prudence
and valour both in the court and in the army, and acquitted himself of all
Christian duties with extraordinary exactitude and fervour. Fasting and prayer
were familiar to him, and his heart was always raised to God. King Chilperic
made him count or governor of Anjou, and being overcome by the importunities of
his friends, the saint consented to take a wife about the year 578. But the
lady was struck with a leprosy on the morning before it was to be solemnized.
This accident so strongly affected Liciuius, that he resolved to carry into
immediate execution a design he had long entertained of entirely renouncing the
world. This he did in 580, and leaving all things to follow Jesus Christ, he
entered himself among the clergy, and hiding himself from the world in a
community of ecclesiastics, found no pleasure but in the exercises of piety and
the most austere penance, and in meditating on the holy scriptures. Audouin,
the fourteenth bishop of Angers, dying towards the year 600, the people
remembering the equity and mildness with which Licinius had governed them,
rather as their father than as a judge or master, demanded him for their
pastor. The voice of the clergy seconded that of the people, and the
concurrence of the court of Clotaire II. in his minority, under the regency of
his mother Fredegonda, overcame all the opposition his humility could make. His
time and his substance were divided in feeding the hungry, comforting and
releasing prisoners, and curing the bodies and souls of his people. Though he
was careful to keep up exact discipline in his diocess, he was more inclined to
indulgence than rigour, in imitation of the tenderness which Jesus Christ showed
for sinners. Strong and persuasive eloquence, the more forcible argument of his
severe and exemplary life, and God himself speaking by miracles, qualified him
to gain the hearts of the most hardened, and make daily conquests of souls to
Christ. He renewed the spirit of devotion and penance by frequent retreats, and
desired earnestly to resign his bishopric, and hide himself in some solitude:
but the bishops of the province, whose consent he asked, refusing to listen to
such a proposal, he submitted, and continued to spend the remainder of his life
in the service of his flock. His patience was perfected by continual
infirmities in his last years, and he finished his sacrifice about the year
618, in the sixty-fifth of his age. He was buried in the church of St. John
Baptist, which he had founded, with a monastery, which he designed for his
retreat. It is now a collegiate church, and enriched with the treasure of his
relics. His memory was publicly honoured in the seventh age: the 1st of
November was the day of his festival, though he is now mentioned in the Roman
Martyrology on the 13th of February. At Angers he is commemorated on the 8th of
June, which seems to have been the day of his consecration, and on the 21st of
June, when his relics were translated or taken up, 1169, in the time of Henry
II. king of England, count of Anjou. See his life, written from the relation of
his disciples soon after his death; and again by Marbodius, archdeacon of
Angers, afterwards bishop of Rennes, both in Bollandus
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume II: February. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/2/132.html
San Licinio di
Angers Vescovo
Festa: 1 novembre
† 610 circa
Martirologio
Romano: Ad Angers in Neustria, sempre in Francia, san Licinio, vescovo, al
quale il papa san Gregorio Magno raccomandò alcuni monaci diretti in
Inghilterra.
San Licinio (Lézin o LIcinius) d'Angers è stato un vescovo vissuto tra i secoli VI e VII.
Nella lista dei vescovi figura tra il tredicesimo posto e il quindicesimo, dopo Audoveo, documentato nel 590 e prima di Caidulfo.
La tradizione ci riporta che San Licinio era un conte di Anjou tra gli anni 587 - 592 e successivamente fu nominato vescovo tra gli anni 592 - 610.
Licinio era dapprima l'agente del re Clotaire e poi governatore delle province armoricane. Subito dopo venne a vivere ad Angers che era allora la capitale. Qui svolgerà tutte le sue funzioni pubbliche con coscienza, abilità e onestà.
Su san Licinio è stata scritta una “Vita”, secondo la quale Licinio abbandonò le sue cariche pubbliche quando la sua fidanzata, prima del matrimonio, fu colpita dalla lebbra.
Licinio si ritirò e divenne monaco nell'abbazia di Châlonne.
Alla morte del vescovo di Angers, gli abitanti lo elessero come loro vescovo, mettendo a servizio della diocesi le qualità che aveva dimostrato durante il suo governo civile. Storicamente il santo è attestato quando, nel 601 ricevette una lettera da Gregorio Magno che gli raccomandava alcuni missionari che il papa stava inviando in Inghilterra. Inoltre il suo nome di Licinio è menzionato anche nel testamento di Bertrando di Le Mans, vescovo tra l’anno 586 ed oltre l’anno 616.
San Licinio fece costruire la chiesa della Santa Croce in ricordo della
guarigione di dodici persone non vedenti, nel luogo dove avvenne questo
miracolo.
Nella biografia sopracitata si racconta che il santo fondò un monastero nei
pressi della città, nel quale sarà sepolto dopo la sua morte.
Sempre nello stesso testo la sua morte è stata indicata nel giorno 1 novembre.
Nel martirologio romano la festa per San Licinio è stata fissata nel giorno 1 novembre.
Autore: Mauro Bonato
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/75940
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Saint Lézin évêque :
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