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ST. GAL

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Of the ninety-eight bishops who have occupied the see of Clermont-Ferrand
(Auvergne) the sixteenth and twenty-third bore the name of Gal, and both are
numbered among the twenty-nine bishops of this church who are honoured as
saints. The first and most illustrious was bishop from 527 to 551, the second,
form 640 to 650. Born of a senatorial family of Auvergne, the first St. Gal
early embraced the monastic life, and then became councillor to St. Quintianus,
who he was to succeed in the See of Clermont. Tierry I, King of Austrasia,
having invaded Auvergne, took Gal prisoner and attached him to the oratory of
his palace. He regained his liberty some years later and returned to Clermont.
Quintianus having died, Gal was chosen as his successor in 527. As bishop he was
the intrepid defender of the rights of the Church against Sivigald, the governor
appointed by Thierry, and after Sivigald's tragic death, the protector of his
children from theprince's wrath. The chief event of his episcopate was the
Council of Clermont in 535. Fifteen prelates of the kingdom of Austrasia
assisted at it under the presidency of Honoratus, Bishop of Bourges. They drew
up seventeen canons, of which the first sixteen are contained in the Decretum of
Gratian, and have become laws of the universal Church. The following is a
summary of the most remarkable: bishops are prohibited from submitting to the
deliberations of councils any private or temporal affairs, before having dealt
with matters regarding discipline; clerics are forbidden to appeal to seculars
in their disputes with bishops excommunication is pronounced against bishops who
solicit the protection of princes in order to obtain the episcopacy, or who
cause forged decrees of election to be signed. The council also declares itself
forcibly against the marriages of Christians with Jews, marriages between
relatives, and the misconduct of the clergy. In 541 Gal took part in the fourth
Council of Orléans, which promulgated energetic decrees for the abolition of
slavery, and in 549 in the fifth, which condemned the errors of Eutyches and
Nestorius. His feast is celebrated on 3 July.



The second St. Gal succeed St. Cæsarius; he was a man of great sanctity, and was
one of the most eminent bishops in Gaul. Little, however, is known of his life.
His feast is kept 1 November.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Fournet, P.A. (1909). St. Gal. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New
York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm

MLA citation. Fournet, Pierre Auguste. "St. Gal." The Catholic Encyclopedia.
Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06335b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J.
Murray.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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