Aredius

Infobox Saint
name=Aredius
birth_date=c. 510
death_date=591
feast_day=25 August
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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Saint Aredius (ca. 510-591), also known as Yrieix, was Abbot of Limoges and chancellor to Theudebert II, King of Austrasia in the 6th century. He founded the monastery of Attanum, and the various French communes called St. Yrieix are named after him.

Legend

He was the son of Jocundus, a wealthy Roman. As a young boy he was sent to monastery at Vigeois to study. At the age of 14, he was sent to Metz, under Theudebert. He became the chancellor. Aredius left the court, where life was dissolute, to join Nicetius, bishop of Trier. He converted to Christianity; when he was singing psalms, a dove came down from the sky and flew around him, Aredius tried to shoo it away, but this one was placed above his head. The dove remained with Aredius during thirty days. When his father died, he joined his mother Pelagia in a villa in Attanum (Attane).

ee also

*Nicetius

External links

* [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/face/ho_17.190.352a,b.htm Reliquary bust of Saint Yrieix]