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Saint Hilary of Arles (c.
403-
449) was a
bishop of Arles.
In early youth he entered the
abbey of
Lérins then presided over by his kinsman
Honoratus (Saint Honoré), and succeeded Honoratus in the bishopric of Arles in
429. Following the example of
St Augustine, he's said to have organized his cathedral clergy into a "congregation," devoting a great part of their time to social exercises of
ascetic religion. He held the rank of metropolitan of
Vienne and
Narbonne, and attempted to exercise the sort of primacy over the church of south
Gaul, which seemed implied in the vicariate granted to his predecessor
Patroclus of Arles (417).
Hilarius deposed the
bishop of Besançon, Chelidonus, for ignoring this primacy, and for claiming a metropolitan dignity for Besançon. An appeal was made to the
Vatican, and
Pope Leo I used it to extinguish the Gallican vicariate (AD.
444). Hilarius was deprived of his rights to consecrate bishops, call
synods, or oversee the church in the province, and the pope secured the
edict of
Valentinian III, so important in the history of the Gallican church, "ut episcopis Gallicanis omnibusque pro lege esset quidquid apostolicae sedis auctoritas sanxisset." The papal claims were made imperial law, and violation of them subject to legal penalties (
Novellae Valent. iii. tit. 16).
Hilarius died in 449, and his name was later introduced into the Roman
martyrology for commemoration on
May 5. During his lifetime he'd a great reputation for learning and eloquence as well as for
piety; his extant works (
Vita S. Honorati Arelatensis episcopi and Metrum in Genesin) compare favourably with any similar literary productions of that period.
A poem,
De providentia, usually included among the writings of
Prosper of Aquitaine, is sometimes attributed to Hilary of Arles.
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