You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (May 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,185 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Isice II (évêque de Vienne)]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Isice II (évêque de Vienne)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Saint Hesychius or Isicius ( French: Isice; died c. 565) was a bishop of Vienne from about 545 to his death. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic church.

Life

Hesychius is mentioned as a Metropolitan Bishop of Vienna in the catalog of Bishop Adon of Vienna (799-875). ^{[1] [2]}

According to the historian Bernard Bligny (1979), Hesychius belonged to "one of the principal Gallo-Roman families of 'Bourgogne', the Hesychii, a branch of the Syagrii", of whom several members were bishops of either Vienne and Grenoble. ^[3]

Archbishop Leger of Vienne recorded in his Liber Episcopalis Viennensis Ecclesiae (1060) that Hesychius took part in the Fifth Council of Orléans in 549 (noted as "Eutychius") and in the Council of Paris in 552.

He is believed to have died in about 565. He was buried by his sister Marcellina near the tomb of Saint Avitus. ^[4] According to his epitaph he had been a quaestor before being elected bishop, ^[4] as did his predecessor, Pantagathus. ^{[2] [5] [6]}

Cultus

Hesychius' cultus as a saint was attested in the 15th-century calendar of Vienne ^[7] and was confirmed by Pope Pius X by decree dated 9 December 1903. ^[8]

His eulogy is in the Roman Martyrology for 12 November, his feast day. ^[9] He is also celebrated together with Saint Martin and all the bishop saints of Vienne on 1 July. ^[10]

See also

• Hesychius I (bishop of Vienne)

References

Sources

• Bligny, Bernard (1979). Histoire des diocèses de France:Grenoble (in French). Vol. 12. Paris: Éditions Beauchesne. p. 22.
• Il martirologio romano. Riformato a norma dei decreti del Concilio ecumenico Vaticano II e promulgato da papa Giovanni Paolo II, LEV, Città del Vaticano 2004
• Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum, Index ac status causarum, Città del Vaticano 1999
• Filippo Caraffa and Giuseppe Morelli (eds.), Bibliotheca Sanctorum (BSS), 12 vols., Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma 1961-1969