Saint Ausone
Évêque d’Angoulème
La bibliothèque du diocèse d'Angoulême porte son nom.
"Saint Ausone est né à Mortagne-sur-Gironde, sur la rive droite de l'estuaire de la Gironde, avant de devenir le premier évêque d'Angoulême. Ausone prêche l'évangile dans le territoire d'Angoulême, lorsque l'idolâtrie y régnait encore. Après avoir converti un grand nombre de païens, il se fixe parmi eux pour continuer de travailler à leur sanctification.
La légende dit qu'il eut la tête tranchée par ordre des magistrats du lieu, ou celui du chef des barbares présents en Gaule à cette époque. Il y a, hors des murs d'Angoulême, une église paroissiale, qui est dédiée à Saint Ausone. Cette abbaye est l'une des plus anciennes de Gaule, et on prétend que saint Ausone en fut le fondateur."
- église Saint Ausone à Angoulême
À Angoulême, au IVe ou Ve siècle, saint Ausone, considéré comme le premier
évêque de la cité.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/10618/Saint-Ausone.html
Saint Ausone
Évêque d’Angoulême
À Angoulême, au IVe ou Ve
siècle, saint Ausone est considéré comme le premier évêque de la cité :
"Saint Ausone est né
à Mortagne-sur-Gironde, sur la rive droite de l’estuaire de la Gironde, avant
de devenir le premier évêque d’Angoulême. Ausone prêche l’évangile dans le
territoire d’Angoulême, lorsque l’idolâtrie y régnait encore. Après avoir
converti un grand nombre de païens, il se fixe parmi eux pour continuer de
travailler à leur sanctification.
La légende dit qu’il eut
la tête tranchée par ordre des magistrats du lieu, ou celui du chef des
barbares présents en Gaule à cette époque. Il y a, hors des murs d’Angoulême,
une église paroissiale, qui est dédiée à Saint Ausone. Cette abbaye est l’une
des plus anciennes de Gaule, et on prétend que saint Ausone en fut le
fondateur."
Date de fête : 22
mai
SOURCE : https://angouleme.catholique.fr/Les-saints-d-Angouleme-Saint-Ausone-et-Saint-Cybard
Vitrail
représentant Saint Ausone, évêque, église de Montbron, Charente, France.
Stained glass window depicting bishop Saint Ausone, church of Montbron, Charente, France.
Also
known as
Ausonio
Profile
Third
century spiritual student of Saint Martial
of Limoges. First Bishop of Angoulême, France.
Additional
Information
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other
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Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
fonti
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MLA
Citation
“Saint Ausonius of
Angoulême“. CatholicSaints.Info. 16 May 2024. Web. 29 June 2024.
<https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ausonius-of-angouleme/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-ausonius-of-angouleme/
Saints
of the Day – Ausonius of Angouleme, Bishop, Martyr
Article
1st or 3rd century.
Ausonius is said to have been a disciple of Saint Martial of Limoges, and first
bishop of Angouléme (Benedictines).
MLA
Citation
Katherine I
Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info.
16 May 2024. Web. 29 June 2024. <https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-ausonius-of-angouleme-bishop-martyr/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saints-of-the-day-ausonius-of-angouleme-bishop-martyr/
Abbaye bénédictine de
Saint-Ausone, fondée à Angoulême en Charente au xie siècle : le cloître et la chapelle du
séminaire (siège de la bibliothèque Saint-Ausone)
Abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Ausone, fondée à Angoulême en Charente au xie siècle : le cloître (autre côté)
St. Ausonius
Feastday: May 22
Death: 1st or 3rd century
Bishop and martyr. He is
recorded as being a disciple of St. Martial of
Limoges. Ausonius was the first bishop of
Angouleme, in France. He was martyred for the faith.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1624
Ausonius, St
Ausonius, St., first
bishop of Angouleme, was a disciple of St. Martial of Limoges, and .may be
called the apostle of Aquitaine. He lived in the time of the emperor Gallianus,
when Chrocus, king of the Germans, made an irruption into Gaul and martyred many
of the faithful, among whom was Ausonius. He is commemorated June 11. See
Baillet, June 11.
SOURCE : https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/A/ausonius-st.html
Angoulême
(ENGOLIEIMA).
Diocese;
comprises the Department of the Charente in France,
and has always been suffragan to the Archbishopric
of Bordeaux, under the old régime as well as under the Concordat. Its
first bishop was
Ausonius, a disciple, it is said, of St.
Martial, concerning whom we have two historical authorities: St.
Gregory of Tours, who held that St.
Martial preached the gospel in Limoges about the year 250, and the
Limousin traditions, transmitted or invented by the chronicler Adhémar de
Chabannes, who maintained that St.
Martial was the immediate disciple of St. Peter. According to the
latter opinion St. Ausonius was a bishop of
the first century; according to the former, of the third century. We incline
towards the opinion of St.
Gregory. (See LIMOGES.)
St. Salvius, honoured as
a martyr at
Valenciennes, whom the "Gallia
Christiana" makes a Bishop of
Angoulême, was undoubtedly only a missionary bishop of
the eighth century. In the list of the Bishops of Angoulême is found the name
of the poet Octavien de St. Gelais (1494-1502). The religious monuments of the
province of Angoumois are remarkable for their admirable Romano-Byzantine façades.
The most beautiful of them is St. Peter's Cathedral at Angoulême. The memory of
a wealthy and
famous Augustinian abbey,
founded in 1122, is kept alive by its ruins at Couronne, near Angoulême. The
Diocese of Angoulême (at the end of 1905), contained 330,305 inhabitants, 30
cures or first-class parishes,
332 succursales or second-class parishes,
and 6 vicariates formerly with State subventions.
Sources
The pages of Gallia
Christiana (ed. 1720, II. 975-1030) on the diocese of Angoulême are quite
mediocre. See especially DUCHEBNE, Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne
Gaule (Paris, 1900). II, 64-72, 135-137; CHEVALIER, Topo-bibl. (Paris,
1894-98), 157-158.
Goyau,
Georges. "Angoulême." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 21 May
2020 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01513b.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael Christensen.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil
Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John
Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2023 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
SOURCE : https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01513b.htm
Église Saint-Ausone, Angoulême, quartier Saint-Ausone
Église Saint-Ausone, Angoulême, quartier Saint-Ausone. Le clocher-porche vu de l'avenue Wilson.
Église
Saint-Ausone, Angoulême, quartier Saint-Ausone. Vue de l’est
Sant' Ausonio di
Angouleme Vescovo
sec. IV/V
Martirologio
Romano: Ad Angoulême sempre in Aquitania, sant’Ausonio, ritenuto primo
vescovo di questa città.
È il primo della lista
episcopale compilata alla fine sec. X. Una passio della stessa epoca, a quanto
pare piena di dati anacronistici, pone il suo pontificato verso il 400. Egli
sarebbe stato martirizzato al tempo dell'invasione dei Vandali. Verso il 1000
gli era stata dedicata una basilica antica, come ai ss. Attone e Cesario. La
sua festa si celebra il 22 maggio mentre il 30 dello stesso mese si ricorda la
traslazione dei suoi resti (1118), più tardi dispersi dai protestanti (1568).
Autore: Paul Viard
Le informazioni su
Sant'Ausonio scarseggiano, disperse in frammenti di testi agiografici e liste
episcopali. La più antica menzione risale alla fine del X secolo, in una lista
episcopale compilata a Angoulême. Una "passio", coeva alla lista
episcopale, narra la vita e il martirio del santo, seppur ricca di anacronismi.
Altre fonti, come la "Historia pontificum et comitum Engolismensium"
di Ademaro di Chabannes, offrono ulteriori dettagli, seppur con dubbia
attendibilità.
Secondo la tradizione, Sant'Ausonio visse nel IV secolo, durante l'epoca
tardo-romana. La sua conversione al cristianesimo è avvolta nel mistero, ma si
presume sia avvenuta in giovane età. Divenuto vescovo di Angoulême, guidò la
sua diocesi con saggezza e dedizione, diffondendo la fede e operando miracoli.
Tuttavia, la sua serenità episcopale fu bruscamente interrotta dall'invasione dei Vandali. Questi barbari, ostili al cristianesimo, devastarono la regione e perseguitarono i fedeli. Sant'Ausonio, non recedendo dalla sua fede e dalla difesa del suo gregge, fu catturato e martirizzato. La data del suo martirio è incerta, ipotizzata tra il IV ed il V secolo.
Il culto di Sant'Ausonio si diffuse rapidamente in Aquitania, venerato come protovescovo e patrono di Angoulême. Verso il 1000, una basilica antica fu dedicata a lui, assieme ai santi Attone e Cesario. La sua festa si celebra il 22 maggio, mentre il 30 dello stesso mese si commemora la traslazione delle sue reliquie avvenuta nel 1118. Purtroppo, queste reliquie furono disperse dai protestanti durante le guerre di religione del XVI secolo (1568).
Autore: Franco Dieghi
SOURCE : http://santiebeati.it/dettaglio/54330
Molinier Auguste, « 59.
Ausonius (S.), évêque d'Angoulême [note bibliographique] », Collections numériques de la
Sorbonne Année 1901 1 p.
23 : https://www.persee.fr/doc/shf_0000-0000_1901_num_1_1_849_t1_0023_0000_1
Voir aussi : https://www.rcfcharente.fr/saint-ausone-1er-eveque-dangouleme/
http://orthodoxievco.net/ecrits/vies/synaxair/mai/ausone.pdf
