Ferréol of Uzès
Religious Leader
0530 – 0581
Who was Ferréol of Uzès?
Saint Ferréol of Uzès was bishop of Uzès and possibly bishop of Nîmes. His Feast Day is January 4.
He was born in Narbonne, apparently a grandson of Cloderic of the Ripuarian Franks. Bishops in Merovingian Gaul were ordinarily drawn from the highest levels of society. Ferréol founded a Benedictine abbey, for which he wrote a rule that survives; it regards the work of transcription in the scriptorium as the equivalent of manual labor, since it charges that the monk "who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers." As bishop of Uzès, Ferréol devoted himself in particular to converting the Jews within his diocese.
Under Childebert I Ferréol was banished from his see in 555, for having lived in too friendly relations with the Jews of Septimania. The thoroughly Romanized region had until recently been ruled by a Visigothic and Arian upper class, and relaxed relations with the long-established and urbane Jewish community was a Visigoth tradition. Ferréol's motive lay in hopes of making conversions, according to the Vita Ferreoli, apud Marcus Antonius Dominicy, Ausberti Familia Rediviva, published in Paris, 1648.
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- [the monk] who does not turn up the earth with the plow ought to write the parchment with his fingers
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- Born
- 0530
Narbonne - Also known as
- Saint Ferreol of Uzes
- St. Ferréol of Uzès
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- Catholicism
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- France
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- Died
- Jan 4, 0581
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