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Saint Cybard (or Eparchius, Eparque, Ybar, Ybard, Separchius, Cybar; 504 – 1 July 581) was a monk and a hermit who inhabited a cave beneath the walls of
The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his ''Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'', under July 1:
Saint Cybard (or Eparchius, Eparque, Ybar, Ybard, Separchius, Cybar; 504 – 1 July 581) was a monk and a hermit who inhabited a cave beneath the walls of Angoulême
Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a communes of France, commune, the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Charente Departments of France, department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern Franc ...
for forty-four years. The Latin form of his name is ''Eparchius'', and it also appears in French as ''Éparche'' and ''Ybars'', as in the commune of Saint-Ybars.
Life
Cybard was probably born at Trémolat in the Périgord. He was ordained a priest by Aptonius III, the Bishop of Angoulême, in 542. His story is told inGregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours (30 November 538 – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florenti ...
''Historia Francorum'' (VI, 8). An anonymous hagiography entitled ''Vita et virtutes Eparchii reclusi Ecolismensis'' ("The life and virtues of Eparchius the recluse of Angoulême") tells how "alone he ... walked by night to the spot where he should be a recluse. Having finished his journey and his prayers, he lay down his head on a rock." That spot was, according to the same source, at "a remote location, far from the city, and from above on the side of the mountain trickled a stream of flowing water, and the river Charente started out from there."Gervers (1967), 14, note 28: ''locus remotus et civitas procul et desuper latere montis fons aquae fluens manaret, et Carantonis fluvius ab alio excluderet latere.''
The Abbey of Saint-Cybard was built over Cybard's cave after his death, a church in La Rochefoucauld is dedicated to him, and a quarter of Angoulême bears his name. He is the patron saint of the diocese and his feast day
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is 1 July.
Butler's account
The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his ''Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'', under July 1:
Citations
Sources
*Further reading
*Saint-Roche, P. (1985). "A propos du sanctoral du sacramentaire d'Angoulême." ''Rivista di archeologia cristiana'' 61 (1–2): 113–18. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cybard, Saint 6th-century Frankish saints