Saint Germain de Capoue
Évêque (✝ 545)
Légat du Pape à Constantinople sous l'empereur Justinien pour renouer l'unité entre l'Orient et l'Occident qu'un schisme divisait depuis quarante ans. Il réussit à éteindre ce schisme. Il était un grand ami deSaint Benoît, lequel, selon Godescard «vit son âme portée au ciel par des anges au moment de son décès.»
À Capoue, également en Campanie, vers 540, saint Germain, évêque, dont le pape saint Grégoire le Granda parlé dans ses écrits.
Martyrologe romain
Germanus of Capua B (RM)
Died c. 545. Bishop Saint Germanus of Capua (Italy) was a great friend of Saint Benedict. In 519, Pope Saint Hormisdas sent Germanus to Constantinople as papal legate to heal the 40-year-old Acacian schism. Although the schism was abolished, Germanus appears to have met with ill-treatment at the hands of the schismatics, but escaped. At the hour of Germanus's death, Saint Benedict saw his soul being carried to heaven.
Pope Saint Gregory the Great relates (Dialogues, 4, 40):
"While I was young and still a layman, I heard told to the seniors, who were well-informed men, how the Deacon Paschasius appeared to Germanus, bishop of Capua. Paschasius, deacon of the Apostolic See, whose books on the Holy Spirit are still extant, was a man of eminent sanctity, devoted to works of charity, zealous for the relief of the poor, and most forgetful of self. "A dispute having arisen concerning a pontifical election, Paschasius separated himself from the bishops, and joined the party disapproved by the episcopacy. Soon after this he died, with a reputation for sanctity which God confirmed by a miracle: an instantaneous cure was effected on the day of the funeral by the simple touch of his dalmatic.
"Long after this, Germanus, bishop of Capua, was sent by the physicians to the baths of Saint Angelo. What was his astonishment to find the same Deacon Paschasius employed in the most menial offices at the baths!
"'Here I expiate,' said the apparition, 'the wrong I did by adhering to the wrong party. I beseech of you, pray to the Lord for me: you will know that you have been heard when you shall no longer see me in these places.'"Germanus began to pray for the deceased, and after a few days, returning to the baths, sought in vain for Paschasius, who had disappeared. He had but to undergo a temporary punishment because he had sinned through ignorance, and not through malice."
(Benedictines, Husenbeth, Schouppe).
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October 30
St. Germanus, Bishop of Capua, Confessor
THIS holy prelate was sent by Pope Hormisdas legate to the Emperor Justin, in 519, to engage the Orientals to put an end to the schism which had continued forty years; had been fomented by the emperors Zeno and Anastasius, both favourers of heretics, and by Acacius and other patriarchs of Constantinople. The embassy was attended with the desired success; the heretics were condemned, and the schism entirely abolished. In it St. Germanus and his fellow legates suffered much from the heretics, but escaped out of their hands. St. Gregory the Great relates that this saint saw Paschasius, the deacon of Rome, long after his death, in the flames of purgatory, for having adhered to the schism of Laurence against Symmachus, 1 and that he was delivered by the prayers of this holy bishop. 2 Also that St. Bennet at Mount Cassino saw in a vision the soul of St. Germanus, at the hour of his departure, carried by the ministry of angels to eternal bliss. 3 His death happened about the year 540. See Baron. ad ann. 519, &c.; St. Greg. Dial. l. 2, et 4.
Note 1. St. Gregory only tells us that he received this account when a child from certain old men. If it be authentic, Paschasius must have repented at least in his last moments when he was speechless; or ignorance must have excused him from the most grievous malice of the schism which he had abetted; for voluntary schism is in itself a mortal sin. [back]
Note 2. S. Greg. Dialog. 4, c. 40, t. 2, p. 444, Ed. Ben. [back]
Note 3. Ib. l. 2, c. 35, p. 270. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume X: October. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
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Saint Germanus of Capua
October 30
St. Germanus, Bishop of Capua, Confessor
THIS holy prelate was sent by Pope Hormisdas legate to the Emperor Justin, in 519, to engage the Orientals to put an end to the schism which had continued forty years; had been fomented by the emperors Zeno and Anastasius, both favourers of heretics, and by Acacius and other patriarchs of Constantinople. The embassy was attended with the desired success; the heretics were condemned, and the schism entirely abolished. In it St. Germanus and his fellow legates suffered much from the heretics, but escaped out of their hands. St. Gregory the Great relates that this saint saw Paschasius, the deacon of Rome, long after his death, in the flames of purgatory, for having adhered to the schism of Laurence against Symmachus, 1 and that he was delivered by the prayers of this holy bishop. 2 Also that St. Bennet at Mount Cassino saw in a vision the soul of St. Germanus, at the hour of his departure, carried by the ministry of angels to eternal bliss. 3 His death happened about the year 540. See Baron. ad ann. 519, &c.; St. Greg. Dial. l. 2, et 4.
Note 1. St. Gregory only tells us that he received this account when a child from certain old men. If it be authentic, Paschasius must have repented at least in his last moments when he was speechless; or ignorance must have excused him from the most grievous malice of the schism which he had abetted; for voluntary schism is in itself a mortal sin. [back]
Note 2. S. Greg. Dialog. 4, c. 40, t. 2, p. 444, Ed. Ben. [back]
Note 3. Ib. l. 2, c. 35, p. 270. [back]
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume X: October. The Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/10/302.html
Saint Germanus of Capua
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Friend of SaintBenedict of Nursia. Bishop of Capua, Italy. Papallegate to Constantinople to repair the damage caused by the Acacian schism, but met ill-treatment by the schismaticsand made no progress to reunification. On his death, SaintBenedict had a vision of Germanus’ soul being carried to heaven.
- c.545 of natural causes