St. Turibius of Astorga

Feastday: April 16
Death: 460

Bishop of Astorga, Spain, best known for having been an opponent of the heretical Priscillianist practically wiping out the heresy in Spain. lie supported Pope St. Leo I the Great and was a stern disciplinarian.

Saint Turibius of Astorga (Spanish: Santo Toribio de Astorga; fl. 446, died 460) was an archdeacon of Tui and an early Bishop of Astorga. Turibius was a zealous maintainer of ecclesiastical discipline, and defender of the Nicene Christianity against the Galician heresy of Priscillianism, for which he received a supportive letter from Leo the Great, which still survives.

Turibius held a local synod in 446. After his death at Astorga in 460 he was revered as a saint. According to tradition, his relics, along with a piece of the lignum crucis he had brought from Jerusalem, were transferred to the Monastery of Liébana around the middle of the eighth century. His feast day is April 16 in the Roman Catholic Church. He is usually portrayed with a mitre and is not to be confused with Turibius of Liébana.

Notes

1. ^ Alonso del Val, José Maria (2000). "Santo Toribio, Obispo" (in Spanish). El Diario Montanes. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
2. ^ Pope Leo I (1881). "Epistula 15: Ad Turibium Asturiensem episcopum de priscillianistarum erronibus". In J.-P. Migne (ed.). Patrologiae cursus completus. Series Latina (in Latin). 54. Garnier Frères. pp. 693–695.
3. ^ Kirsch, J.P. (1913). "Pope St. Leo I (the Great)" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
4. ^ "Official website of the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-12-31.

Bibliography

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