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Embrun ( in the Hautes-Alpes '' Département '' in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regin, in southeastern France . DESCRIPTION It is located between . The town of Embrun, Canada was named after Embrun in 1856. HISTORY Ebrodunum ( in Greek Language soucres), was the name under which Embrun entered written history. There is some variation in the writing of the first part of the name. It is Epebrodunum in Strabo 's text, but later translaters corrected it. Strabo (iv.) says that from Tarasco to the borders of the Vocontii and the beginning of the ascent of the Alps , through the Druentia and Caballio , is 63 miles; and from thence to the other boundaries of the Vocontii, to the kingdom of Cottius (the Alpes Cottiae ), to the village of Ebrodunum, 99 miles. Ebrodunum was in the country of the Caturiges , and just on the borders of the Vocontii, as it appears. The position of Ebrodunum is easily determined by the Itineraries and the name. Ptolemy (iii. 1) mentions Eborodunum as the city of the Caturiges, and no other. In the Jerusalem Itinerary Ebrodunum is called ''Mansio'', like Caturiges (modern Chorges ), which was also in the territory of the Caturiges. There are Roman remains at Chorges, and none are mentioned at Embrun, though it appears that the cathedral of Embrun is built on the site of a Roman temple, or that some of the materials of a temple were used for it. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The former archdiocese of Embrun had as Suffragan s Digne , Antibes And Grasse , Vence , Glandèves , Senez and Nice. Tradition ascribes the evangelization of Embrun to Saints Nazarius And Celsus , martyrs under emperor Nero . The first bishop was St. Marcellinus (354-74). Other bishops of Embrun were St. Albinus (400-37); St. Palladius (first half of the sixth century); St. Eutherius (middle of the seventh century); St. James (eighth century); St. Alphonsus (eighth century); St. Marcellus (end of the eighth century), whom Charlemagne sent to evangelize Saxony ; St. Bernard (805-25), under whose episcopate Charlemagne enriched the diocese of Embrun; St. Benedict (beginning of the tenth century), martyred by the Saracen invaders; St. Liberalis (920-40); St.Hismide (1027-45); St. Guillaume (1120-34), founder of the celebrated Abbey Of Boscodon ; St. Bernard Chabert (1213-35), Blessed Henry Of Segusio (1250-71), known as ''(H)Ostiensis'', i.e. Cardinal Bishop Of Ostia , an orator and canonist of renown; the Dominican Raimond Of Mévolhon (1289-94), who defended the doctrine of Thomas Aquinas against the English theologians; Bertrand Of Deaux (1323-38), who as the legate of Clement VI at Rome did much to bring about the downfall of Rienzi ; Jacques Gelu (1427-32), one of the first prelates to recognize the supernatural vocation of Joan Of Arc ; Giulio De' Medici (1510-11), later pope under the name of Clement VII; Cardinal François De Tournon (1517-26), employed on diplomatic missions by king Francis I Of France , and founder of the College De Tournon ; Cardinal De Tencin (1724-40), who in September, 1727, caused the condemnation by the Council Of Embrun of the Jansenist Soanen , Bishop of his suffragan See Of Senez . St. Vincent Ferrer preached several missions against the Vaudois in the Diocese of Embrun. Besides the bishops named the following are honored as saints in the present Veranus (sixth century), afterwards Bishop Of Cavaillon , and the anchorite St. Donatus (sixth century). When the Diocese Of Gap was re-established in 1822 it comprised, besides the ancient Diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient archdiocese of Embrun. The name of this last metropolitan see, however, has been absorbed in the title of the Archbishop Of Aix . Cathedral:[http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/orgues/france/embrunnd1.jpg ,[http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/~uss1010/orgues/france/embrunnd3.jpg] SEE ALSO REFERENCES SOURCES AND EXTERNAL LINKS |
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