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in 567. The bishops of Brittany declined to attend, as Eufronius claimed authority over the Breton church. The council dealt mostly with church discipline. The bishops noted that some Gallo-Roman customs of ancestor worship were still being observed. Canon XXII decreed that anyone known to be
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In 561 much of Tours burned down during the warfare that raged at that time. Eufronius rebuilt two of the churches at his own expense. According to Gregory, Eufronius predicted the death of Charibert.
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nominee declined appointment to the See, it remained vacant for ten months until the people and clergy elected Eufronius. He was a priest at Tours, from a family of senatorial rank. a grandson of
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participating in these practices was barred from receiving communion and not allowed to enter a church. The bishops of the Kingdom of Paris were particularly concerned about the
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Labande-Mailfert (dir.), Yvonne (1986–1987). "Histoire de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix de Poitiers : quatorze siècles de vie monastique".
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sent Eufronius to Poitiers to perform the ceremony. Sigebert also returned church lands that had been seized by
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practice of seizing ecclesiastical properties in outlying areas in order to fund their internecine wars.
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Eufronius was Bishop of Tours for eighteen years, and died at the age of seventy. He was succeeded by
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refused to preside over its installation in the abbey, at Radegund's request, king
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Eufronius took part in the Council of Paris in 557, and presided over the
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Bishop of Tours
Gregory of Tours
King Chlothar's
Gregory of Langres
Venantius Fortunatus
Abbaye de Sainte-Marie
Frankish
Radegund
Frankish Empire
Byzantine Emperor
Justin II
True Cross
Maroveus of Poitiers
Sigebert
King Charibert
Council of Tours
Merovingian
St. Gregory of Tours
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Bennett, S.A., "Eufronius (2)", A Dictionary of Christian Biography, (William Smith, Henry Wace, eds.), J. Murray, 1880, p. 269
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Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean: Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD, (Andreas Fischer, Ian Wood, eds.), A&C Black, 2014, p. 125
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Thierry, Augustin. History of the Conquest of England by the Normans, Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 25, n.2
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