Mansuetus (bishop of Toul)
Mansuetus | |
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Bishop of Toul | |
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Church | Catholic Church |
Appointed | 365 |
Term ended | 375 |
Successor | Amon |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | September 3 |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Saint Mansuetus (French: Mansuy; died 375) was the first Bishop of Toul.
Life[]
Mansuetus is thought to have been of Irish or Scottish origin. After religious studies in Rome, he was sent by Pope Damasus I to evangelize Gaul, becoming the first Bishop of Toul in 365.[1][2] Little is known about the details of his life; he is believed to have erected a church dedicated to St. Peter and to have spent nearly four decades preaching in the Leuci region, which efforts were met with considerable success.[3] He died in Thulium while serving as itinerant bishop of .[clarification needed]
Veneration[]
Mansuetus is recognized as a saint according to the Pre-Congregation standards for canonization.[4] Tradition holds that he is responsible for the healing of lepers and for restoring the life of the drowned son of the prince of Toul.[5] His Feast day is celebrated on September 3 in the and on August 31 in Saint-Dié .[6]
Various versions of St Mansuy's life were composed in the Middle Ages, the earliest was written by Adson of Montier-en-Der at the request of Gerard of Toul in the mid tenth-century. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries a shorter version and a metrical version were written. [7]
According to the Vita Sancti Gerardi, Bishop St. Gerard I of Toul (r. 963–994) had the relics of both Mansuetus and Aprus brought into Toul and placed in the church of St. John the Baptist while he was ill.[8] Later, in 1790, Mansuetus' relics were divided among the canons of the church of Toul, to prevent them from being destroyed by revolutionaries.[9]
Gallery[]
Église Saint Mansuy de Fontenoy-le-Château.
Statue.
Reliquaire.
Son gisant.
Iconography is found on the shrine of Vittel and a brotherhood statue, belonging to the Church of Fontenoy-le-Château. There are parish churches dedicated to St. Mansuy in Bouvron, Fontenoy-le-Château, Loisey-Culey, Nancy, Serécourt. The village of Dommary-Baroncourt had a church of that name, but it was destroyed in 1974.
Notes[]
- ^ Dictionnaire d'orfèvrerie, de gravure et de ciselure chrétiennes, (Jacques Rémi A. Texier, 1863).
- ^ « Ils sont nos aïeux, les saints de chez nous » - Chanoine André Laurent - Mirecourt - 1980.
- ^ "Saint Mansuy, évêque".
- ^ "Saint Mansuetus of Toul". catholicsaints.info. August 17, 2009.
- ^ Rev. S. Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints (John Hodges: 1875), 36
- ^ Calendar Ecclesiastical.
- ^ Monique Goullet, 'Les Vies de Saint Mansuy (Mansuetus) Premier Évêque de Toul' in Analitica Bollandiana, vol 116 (1998), p. 57-105
- ^ Karl Leyser, Timothy Reuter, Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Karl Leyser (Continuum International Publishing Group: 1992), 56.
- ^ Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A. The Lives of the Saints (John Hodges: 1875), 36.
- 375 deaths
- 4th-century bishops in Gaul
- Bishops of Toul
- 4th-century Christian saints
- Gallo-Roman saints