#LAZARUS BIBLE STORY NEW ADVENT SERIES#

Lazarus was to be found in the cathedral dedicated to St. At the beginning of the twelfth century, perhaps through a confusion of names, it was believed at Autun that the tomb of St.

Before the middle of the eleventh century there does not seem to be the slightest trace of the tradition according to which the Palestinian saints came to Provence. Magdalen of Vezelay, that we first read of Lazarus in connection with the voyage that brought Magdalen to Gaul. It is in a writing, contained in an eleventh century manuscript, with some other documents relating to St. Like the other legends concerning the saints of the Palestinian group, this tradition, which was believed for several centuries and which still finds some advocates, has no solid foundation. But the inhabitants of Marseilles claim to be in possession of his head which they still venerate. His body was later translated to Autun, and buried in the cathedral of that town. During the new persecution of Domitian he was cast into prison and beheaded in a spot which is believed to be identical with a cave beneath the prison Saint-Lazare.

In this same crypt he was interred, when he shed his blood for the faith. During the first persecution under Nero he hid himself in a crypt, over which the celebrated Abbey of St.-Victor was constructed in the fifth century. Lazarus of whom alone we have to treat here, went to Marseilles, and, having converted a number of its inhabitants to Christianity, became their first pastor. It is related that they separated there to go and preach the Gospel in different parts of the southeast of Gaul.

#LAZARUS BIBLE STORY NEW ADVENT SERIES#

According to a tradition, or rather a series of traditions combined at different epochs, the members of the family at Bethany, the friends of Christ, together with some holy women and others of His disciples, were put out to sea by the Jews hostile to Christianity in a vessel without sails, oars, or helm, and after a miraculous voyage landed in Provence at a place called today the Saintes-Maries. Reputed first Bishop of Marseilles, died in the second half of the first century.

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