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Amandus (early 5th cent. CE) was a presbyter (Priest/Presbyter) in Bordeaux under Bishop Delphinus, after whose death around 404 CE he succeeded as bishop in this city. He as a presbyter with close connections to Delphinus probably took part at the deposition of the Priscillianists (Priscillianism) at the synod in Bordeaux 384/385 CE (Sul. Chron. 2.48.1; 49.2-50.1; SC 441, 338–343; Prosper of Aquitaine, Epitoma chronicorum  under year 385 CE and under year 389 CE; MGH.AA 9, 462; Hydatius, Chronicle under year 386 CE; OCM 76f.), but nothing is known about his activity. …

Anianus was (according to a late list of bishops of the 11th cent ., the fifth; see Renaud, 1976, 83f.) bishop of Orléans in the mid-5th century CE and died in 454 CE. Only one important event was remembered about him, namely, his activities to retrieve the city of Orléans from the invading Huns under Attila in 451 CE. This incident is the main item in the Vita Aniani Aurelianensis ( Vita I), composed probably around 500 CE (Renaud, 1976, 86f.) in Orléans. The text, the “earliest extant hagiographic work from Orléannais” (Head, 1990, 20), is more a historical …

Early October 453 CE, bishops from the province Lugdunensis III (Eustochius from Tours, Victorius from Le Mans, Charitton, Rumorides and Viventius) met together with Leo from Bourges in Angers to ordain a new bishop, Thalasius, for this city and took the opportunity to enact 12 canons. Unfortunately, the transmission of this council’s canons is obscure in two respects (Councils/Synods; Canons [of Councils).First, the critical edition can rely only on two codices of Saint-Maur-dés-Fossés that present a collection of canons from diverse councils, namely C…