Saul of Córdoba

Saul (Spanish: Saúl) was the bishop of Córdoba between 850 and 861.[1]

Saul obtained the bishopric by means of simony. In a letter addressed to him, Paul Albar mentions the 400 solidi he had paid the eunuchs of the Umayyad emirate. Nevertheless, Eulogius of Córdoba praised him as a pastor in his Liber Apologeticus Martyrum.[1]

Saul's episcopate coincided with the martyrs' movement in Córdoba. His metropolitan bishop, Reccafred, twice had him imprisoned for his sympathetic stance to the martyrs.[1] On the first occasion in 851, he was imprisoned with Eulogius and many of his priests, as related by Paul Albar in his Vita Eulogii.[2] He attended the council of Córdoba summoned by the emir in 852. There, while accepting the proposed prohibition on seeking martyrdom, he defended those who had already been killed.[1] His second stint in prison, mentioned by Eulogius in his Memoriale Sanctorum, was spent alone.[3] Saul took part in the burial and memorializing of the martyrs, as shown by Aimoin of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in his account of the translation of the relics of George, Aurelius and Natalia.[4]

Saul left behind two writings in Latin: a letter on his "calamities" addressed to an anonymous bishop and a letter to Paul Albar dated 862.[5] The latter is notable for a passage lumping together the Migetians of Saul's day with the Luciferians and Donatists, purists of centuries earlier.[6][7] The three sects are labelled salsuginosas ('salty').[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Lara Olmo 1999, p. 68.
  2. ↑ Lara Olmo 1999, p. 69 and n49.
  3. ↑ Lara Olmo 1999, p. 68 and n49.
  4. ↑ Lara Olmo 1999, p. 86.
  5. ↑ Lara Olmo 1999, p. 69. Both of Albar's letters to Saul and Saul's letter to Albar are published in Gil 1973, pp. 221226.
  6. ↑ Isla Frez 2020, p. 207.
  7. 1 2 Cavadini 1993, p. 137 n24.

Sources

  • Cavadini, John C. (1993). The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785–820. University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9781512801149.
  • Gil, Juan, ed. (1973). Corpus Scriptorum Muzarabicorum. Vol. 2. Instituto Antonio de Nebrija.
  • Isla Frez, Amancio (2020). "Migecianos, casianistas y la definición de una herejía (fin del siglo VIII – principio del IX)". Studia Historica. Historia Medieval. 38 (2): 189–219. doi:10.14201/shhme2020382189219. hdl:10366/146384. S2CID 234435024.
  • Lara Olmo, Juan Carlos (1999). "El relato del traslado de los santos mártires Jorge, Aurelio y Natalia: un valioso escrito hagiográfico y documental histórico de mediados del siglo IX" (PDF). Hispania sacra. 51 (103): 55–89.
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