Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 673
Vigilantius, presbyter from Gaul, serves in a church in a diocese of Barcelona (Iberian Peninsula), ca AD 400. His writings are considered heretical. Account in the "Lives of Illustrious Men" by Gennadius of Marseille, writing in Marseille (Gaul), ca AD 490.
XXXVI.
 
VIGILANTIUS presbyter, natione Gallus, Hispaniae Barcelonensis parochiae ecclesiam tenuit. Scripsit et ipse zelo quidem religionis aliqua, sed victus humana laude et praesumens supra vires suas; homo lingua politus, non sensu Scripturarum exercitatus, exposuit pravo ingenio Secundam Danielis visionem, et alia locutus est frivola, quae in catalogo haereticorum necessario exponentur.
 
(ed. E. Cushing Richardson 1896)
XXXVI.
 
Vigilantius the presbyter, of Gallic origin, held a church in the Spanish diocese (parochia) of Barcelona. He wrote also with some zeal for religion but, overcome by the desire for human praise and presuming above his strength, being a man of polished language but not practised in the meaning of Scriptures, he expounded in a perverted sense the "Vision according to Daniel" and said other frivolous things which should be necessarily put in a catalogue of heretics.
 
(trans. by E. Cushing Richardson, changed by J. Szafranowski)

Place of event:

Region
  • Gaul
  • Iberian Peninsula
City
  • Barcelona

About the source:

Author: Gennadius of Marseille
Title: De viris illustribus, Lives of Illustrious Men, De viris inlustribus, On the lives of famous men On the Lives of Famous Men
Origin: Marseille (Gaul)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
The "Lives of Illustrious Men" by Gennadius of Marseille is the continuation of Jerome`s work bearing the same title. It contains 99 additional additional entries on different famous ecclesiestatics. It was written in the end of 5th century. At one point Gennadius writes that the death of presbyter and monk Theodore (Theodulus) of Coelesyria  occured `three years ago, in the reign of Zeno` (died AD 491). Gennadius also knows that pope Gelasius died (AD 496) and Julianus Pomerius is considered alive (d. AD 498). Therefore, Gennadius composed majority of his work most probably in the first half of the 490s.
Edition:
E. Cushing Richardson ed., Hieronymus liber De viris inlustribus; Gennadius liber De viris inlustribus, Leipzig 1896, 57-97.

Categories:

Education - Insufficient education
Functions within the Church - Parish presbyter
Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος
Education
Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Unspecified 'heretic'
Education - Theological interest
Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: J. Szafranowski, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER673, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=673