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E05951: In the anonymous Life of the Jura Fathers, the author describes how *Eugendus (ascetic in the Jura mountains, ob. AD 510, S02182) frequently foresaw future events, including the death of Valentinus, a deacon in the monastery in Condat; 496/515 in Condat. Written in Latin at Condat in the Jura mountains (modern Saint-Claude in eastern Gaul), c. 515/520.
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posted on 2018-07-13, 00:00 authored by kwojtalikThe Life of the Jura Fathers 165-166 (Life of Saint Eugendus the Abbot)
Summary:
Eugendus frequently foresaw future events through divine illumination, so that even when he was still in the body it was believed that he shone with heavenly powers (cum supernis uirtutibus clarescere putaretur). One instance of this was that he foresaw the death of a deacon in the monastery named Valentinus. He approached Valentinus privately and told him that he would depart from the world in about twenty days, and should therefore devote himself to making further spiritual progress before he died. Eugendus described his vision (§ 166):
Hac namque nocte uestitum te niueis linteis a sanctis patribus uidi cum psalmisono in altari oratorii huius inponi.
‘I saw you this night, dressed in snow-white linen, as psalms were being sung, placed by the holy fathers at the altar of this oratory.’
After about ten days, Valentinus fell ill with a fever and died a few days later.
Text: Martine 1988, 416 and 418. Translation: Vivian 1999, 177. Summary: David Lambert.
Summary:
Eugendus frequently foresaw future events through divine illumination, so that even when he was still in the body it was believed that he shone with heavenly powers (cum supernis uirtutibus clarescere putaretur). One instance of this was that he foresaw the death of a deacon in the monastery named Valentinus. He approached Valentinus privately and told him that he would depart from the world in about twenty days, and should therefore devote himself to making further spiritual progress before he died. Eugendus described his vision (§ 166):
Hac namque nocte uestitum te niueis linteis a sanctis patribus uidi cum psalmisono in altari oratorii huius inponi.
‘I saw you this night, dressed in snow-white linen, as psalms were being sung, placed by the holy fathers at the altar of this oratory.’
After about ten days, Valentinus fell ill with a fever and died a few days later.
Text: Martine 1988, 416 and 418. Translation: Vivian 1999, 177. Summary: David Lambert.
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E05951Saint Name
Eugendus, ascetic in the Jura mountains in Gaul, ob. AD 510 : S02182Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - LivesLanguage
- Latin