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BRESCIA (Town) LOMBARDIA
Gaudentius, the pupil and friend of Philastrius, was, upon the death of his master,
elected to the vacant see of Brescia by the united voice of both clergy and laity.
laving received intelligence of his elevation while travelling in the east, he
sought to decline the responsibility of the sacred office. But being warmly pressed
by Ambrose, and threatened at the same time with excommunication by the oriental
bishops in case he should persist in a refusal, his scruples were at length overcome.
The most remarkable event of his subsequent career was the embassy which he undertook
to the court of Arcadius, in A. D. 405, in behalf of Chrysostom, who has commemorated
with eloquent gratitude this mark of attachment, although it was productive of
no happy result. The year in which Gaudentius was born is unknown, as well as
that in which he was raised to the episcopate, and that in which he died. Tillemont
fixes upon A. D. 410 as the period of his decease, while by others it is brought
down as low as 427.
The extant works of Gaudentius consist of twenty-one discourses (sermones),
simple in style, but devoid of all grace or felicity of expression, deeply imbued
with allegorical phantasies and farfetched conceits, exhibiting little to please
or to instruct. Of these ten were preached during Easter (Paschales), and were
committed to writing at the request of Benevolus, a distinguished member of the
congregation, who had been precluded by sickness from being present; five are
upon remarkable texts in Scripture, but not connected with each other; one is
the address delivered on the day of his ordination (De Ordinatione sui) before
St. Anbrose, who officiated on that occasion; one is on the dedication of the
church (De Dedicatione Basilicae) built to receive the relics of forty martyrs;
two are in the form of epistles; the first Ad Germinium on the obligation of almsgiving,
the second Ad Paulum Diaconum on the words of St. John's Gospel, " My father
is greater than I," misinterpreted by the Arians; the remaining two, De Petro
et Paulo, and De Vita et Obitu Philastrii, were first added in the edition of
Galeardus.
The Rythmus de Philastrio, Liber de Singularite Clericorum, and the
Commentarii in Symbolum, which have been ascribed to various fathers, certainly
tainly do not belong to Gaudentius.
The collected writings of Gaudentius were first published in the Patrum
Monumenta Orthodoxographa of J. J. Grynaeus, fol. Bas. 1569, will be found also
in the Bibl. Patr. Max. fol. Lug. Bat. 1677, vol. v. p. 942, and under their best
form in the edition of Philastrius by Galeardus, fol. Brix. 1738.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Dorotheus, Archimandrita of Palestine, lived about A. D. 600, and is said to have been a disciple of Joannes Monachus, on whom he waited during an illness, which lasted for several years. He is believed to have afterwards been made bishop of Brixia on account of his great learning. He wrote a work, in three books, on obscure passages in the Old and New Testament, which however is a mere compilation made from the works of Gregory the Great, for which reason it is printed among the works of the latter, in the Roman edition of 1591, and the subsequent ones. (Cave, Hist. Lit. i.; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. xi.)
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