ST LIZIER, BISHOP OF COUSERANS

ST LIZIER, BISHOP OF COUSERANS - 7 AUGUST

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SAINT LIZIER, BISHOP OF COUSERANS

A bust of Saint Lizier

According to Migne*, Saint Lizier is commemorated on August 7; other writers list him on August 27. Also known as Licerius, Glycerius, French St-Lizier or Licar, this Saint was Bishop of Conserans or Couserans (Consoranum, Conserannum), now St. Lizier de Conserans on the Salat River, in the Ariège department of France. Born the son of noble parents in Spain, he received a thorough education. However, he left his parents early and went to Saint Faustus, Bishop of Tarbes. After the death of Saint Faustus, he joined Saint Quinctian [Quentin, Quintianus], Bishop of Rodez (Rutena), who ordained him a priest and later (around 504) Bishop of Conserans. In the latter capacity Lizier attended the Council of Agde (Agatha) in 506. God glorified his servant through several miracles. Even in his youth, he healed a friend who had been injured in the eye during a sports game by making the sign of the holy cross, and later he helped many sick people through his prayers. A man bitten by a mad dog was healed by the application of his veil (facitergium), and the city was saved from an attack by the Goths through his pious supplication to God. After heading the episcopal see for 44 years and working beneficially in all areas, Lizier went to his eternal reward around the year 548.

Interestingly, Dionysius Sammarthanus* distinguishes two bishops, namely Saint Glycerius and Saint Lizier (Licerius), who was supposedly Bishop of Conserans 200 years later. Zedler* (VI. 1409) seems to have followed this theory: he mentions a Saint Valerius, in 481, listed as the first Bishop of Conserans, then Glycerius as the second in 566, Saint Quintianus as the fourth, and Saint Lizier (Licerius) as the fifth, but the two last-mentioned without a year. Migne* also lists them separately, naming a Saint Licerius (Saint Licere) as Bishop of Llerida in Spain on August 28 and a Saint Glycerius (French: Saint Lizier or Licar) as Bishop of Conserans on August 7.

However, the Bollandist* Stilting, providing various reasons (page 46, nos. 6-11), demonstrates in his work that they are identical. However, the Bishop Licerius, as a native Spaniard, was also highly honoured in Spain, as evidenced by the fact that a church in the Diocese of Barcelona was dedicated to him under the title San-Lley. The Roman Martyrology* mentions him as of Lerida (Ilerda) in Spain on August 27, but this does not necessarily mean that he was also Bishop of Lerida. (VI. 45–49)

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 3, Augsburg, 1869, p. 824)

*A hagiography source used by the authors

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Lizier may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

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