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Caesarius of Arles (Latin: Caesarius Arelatensis; 468/470 – 27 August 542 AD), sometimes called "of Chalon" (Cabillonensis or Cabellinensis) from his birthplace Chalon-sur-Saône, was the foremost ecclesiastic of his generation in Merovingian Gaul.
Saint Caesarius of Arles ; feast day August 27) was a leading prelate of Gaul and a celebrated preacher whose opposition to the heresy of Semi-Pelagianism (q.v.) was one of the chief influences on its decline in the 6th century. At age 20, he entered the monastery at Lérins, Fr., and, having been.
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Jul 29, 2016 · Caesarius of Arles is one of these, in good part perhaps because the established mold for writing and teaching about the tradition of spirituality and intellectuality which Roman culture contributed to early medieval Europe had its heroes defined for it early.
CAESARIUS OF ARLES, ST. Archbishop of Arles (502 – 542); b. Chalon-sur-Sa ô ne, 469 or 470; d. Aug. 27, 542. Caesarius was tonsured in his 18th year (486 – 87) by Bishop Sylvester of Chalon ( c. 485 –c. 527) and two years later became a monk at L é rins, where he was appointed cellarer ( Vita Caesarii 1.4 – 6).
A bishop, administrator, preacher, theologian, and ecclesiastical legislator of sixth-century Gaul. He was the first Western bishop to receive the pallium from the pope, and he convened several councils that shaped the law and life of the Church in the West.
Caesarius of Arles, Saint, bishop, administrator, preacher, theologian, b. at Chalons in Burgundy, 470-71, d. at Arles, August 27, 543, according to Malnory. He entered the monastery of Lerins when quite young, but his health giving way the abbot sent him to Arles in order to recuperate.
St Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, has often been recognized as a powerful evangelizer of Arles and the surrounding countryside, through his promotion of the monastic life and calling the faithful laity to an uncompromising moral standard and elevated piety.
