Quodvultdeus

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name= Saint Quodvultdeus
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death_date=~450 AD
feast_day= 26 October (Roman calendar); 8 January (calendar of Carthage); 19 February (calendar of Naples)
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church


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Saint Quodvultdeus (died c. 450) was a fifth century church father and bishop of Carthage who was exiled to Naples. He was known to have been living in Carthage around 407 and became a deacon in 421 AD. He corresponded with Saint Augustine of Hippo, who served as Quodvultdeus' spiritual teacher. [ [http://saints.sqpn.com/saintq08.htm Patron Saints Index: Saint Quodvultdeus ] ] Augustine also dedicated some of his writings to Quodvultdeus. [ [http://saints.sqpn.com/saintq08.htm Patron Saints Index: Saint Quodvultdeus ] ]

Quodvultus was exiled when Carthage was captured by the Genseric, who followed Arianism. Tradition states that he, along with other Catholic churchmen (such as Gaudiosus of Naples) were loaded onto leaky ships. The ships landed at Naples around 439 AD and Quodvultus established himself in Italy. [ [http://saints.sqpn.com/saintq08.htm Patron Saints Index: Saint Quodvultdeus ] ]

His name means 'What God wants.'

One of the mosaic burial portraits in the Galleria dei Vescovi in the Catacombs of San Gennaro depicts Quodvultus. [Gillian MacKie, "Early Christian Chapels in the West" (University of Toronto Press, 2003), 31.]

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External links

* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintq08.htm Patron Saints: Saint Quodvultdeus]
*de icon [http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/q/quodvultdens.shtml Quodvultdeus]
* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_10_0350-0450-_Quodvultdeus.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes]