Saint Glycerius

:"For the Nicomedian saint, see Glycerius of Nicomedia. For the 17th century saint, see Glycerius Landriani (Glicerio Landriani)."

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name= Saint Glycerius
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death_date=~437
feast_day= September 20 [ [http://www.thanhsinhcong.org/saints_index/saintg6f.htm Welcome to vDeck ] ]
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church


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Saint Glycerius ( _it. San Glicerio, Clicerio) was a 5th century bishop of Milan. He was bishop of Milan from ca. 435 to ca. 437.

t. Glycerius and Emperor Glycerius

Saint Glycerius, died 437 AD, has been identified - but erroneously! - as the Glycerius (c. 420 - after 480) who was one of the last of the Western Roman Emperors (reigned 473-474). Accounts concerning the emperor's later life are mixed.

According to the chronicler Marcellinus Comes, "The Caesar Glycerius, who held the imperial power at Rome, was deposed from power at the port of the city of Rome [i.e. Ostia] by Nepos, son of the sister of the former patrician Marcellinus. From Caesar he was ordained a bishop, and he died." [ [http://www.roman-emperors.org/glyceriu.htm Roman Emperors - DIR Glycerius ] ]

John of Antioch and Jordanes both write that Emperor Glycerius became bishop of Salona after Nepos took Rome, captured Glycerius without a fight and, having stripped him of royalty, appointed him to this see. [ [http://www.roman-emperors.org/glyceriu.htm Roman Emperors - DIR Glycerius ] ] Glycerius may not have been able to keep his hands out of politics, Malchus ("apud. Photius 78") suggests that Glycerius himself was involved in the conspiracy to murder Nepos in 480. [ [http://www.roman-emperors.org/glyceriu.htm Roman Emperors - DIR Glycerius ] ]

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