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IIEROS

HERVAEUS

Hierapolis, originally a pagan of Hierapolis, whoreceived Philip the apostle into his house whenthe people threatened to stone him, and beingconverted was consecrated by Philip bishop ofHierapolis. (Nicetas Paphlago, Oratio ix., ont?t. Philip, in Patr. Gr. cv, 192 ; Le Quien, OriensChrist i. 833.) [L. D.]

HEROS (2) (Eros), metropolitan of Arles?If we may credit the Chronicle ascribed to Dexter?he was bishop of Derthosa, Dertosa, Tortosa, inSpain, (Dext. Chron . s. a. 400, n. Biviar.) Itis not improbable that Heros allied himself withthe cause of the rebel Constantine during itsbrief triumph in Spain, and that when therevolt of Gerontius took place he was compelledto flee into Gaul. He was certainly intrudedinto Arles (“ plebe cleroque contradicente ”),and it would appear by Constantine, who mayhare appointed him to the see as a reward forhis loyalty in Spain. (Zosim. Ep. Aurel. etUniv. Ep. per Atric. Migne, Pati'ol. xx. 649,654; Mansi, iv. 353, A.D. 417; Jaffe, Regest.Pont. Rom. 27.) Lazarus bishop of Aix and hisfriend Heros were both denounced by Zosimusas “ unknown men, and aliens who had obtainedtheir sees in Gaul by unworthy means ” (Ep.Aurel. Mansi, iv. 350), During the siege whichConstantine sustained at Arles, A.D. 411, Herosordained him to the presbyterate; but if this wasdesigned for his protection in the event ofcapture, it proved of no avail, as he was put todeath shortly after his surrender (Sozomen, H. E.ix. 15). The year following, A.D. 412, Heros wasdriven out from Arles by the people of the city,and Patroclus, a friend of Constantius, by whomConstantine had been defeated, was elected tothe vacant sec (Prosper. Chron. s. a.; GallhChrist, i. 578). Heros fled to Palestine in com-pany with his friend Lazarus, who had also re-signed tha see of Aix. There they both tooka leading part in opposition to Pelagius. Alibellus of theirs accusing him of heresy waspresented to the council of Diospolis, Dec. 415.(Gamier, Piss. ii. ad. pt. i. Marii Merc, in Migne,Patrol, xlviii. 327 ; Augustine, de Gest. Palae>t.1, 2, 5, 12, 23, 29, 30, 43, 58, 62; Photius,cod. liv. He calls Heros NeVopos.) Neither ofthem was present on that occasion, however:they excused themselves on the plea that one ofthem was ill (Gamier, u. s. ; Aug. u. $.). Forthis they were afterwards severely reprimandedby Zosimus (Ep. Sept. 21, u. s.). They also sentletters about Pelagius to the African bishopsbv Orosius, which were read at the councilsof Carthage and Milevis, A.D. 416 (Gamier,Piss. u. s. 331, 333). When Zosimus bishop ofRome wrote his second letter to the Africanbishops on the subject of Pelagianism (u. s.), thelibellus which Heros and Lazarus had pre-sented at Diospolis had also been forwarded toRome from Palestine, and it is noticed by himaccordingly («. s.). In Oct. A.D. 417, anothercouncil in the matter of Pelagius -was held atAntioch, and Heros and Lazarus also presenteda libellus against him and his followers to thatassembly. (Mar. Mercator, Commonilor , iii, 5 inMigne, Patrol, xlviii. 100; Gamier, Piss. u. s.344.) Nothing is known of either Heros orLazarus after this.

There is great discrepancy between thecharacter assigned to Heros by Prosper, who

speaks of him as “ vir sanctus et beati Martinidiscipulus” (Chron. s. a. 412), and that which isassigned to him by Zosimus, who calls him“ Tyrannus, patronus caedis” (Sept. 21, w. s.).Cardinal Noris explains this by the suppositionthat Prosper was so ardent a supporter of theparty which still adhered to Heros after his ex-pulsion that he was blind to his ill-deserts, whileZosimus, who was well informed as to the realcharacter of the intruder, espoused the cause ofPatroclus. (Noris, Corrig. et Add. ad ffist.Pelag.Opera , iv. 743; Zosimus, Ep. Unir. Episc. perGall. March 22, 417 ; Mansi, iv. 359 ; Jatle, Reg.Pont. 27.)

Mabillon tells us that he bad seen an ancientArelate diptych with the name “ErotisEpiseopi,”but without the -J- prefixed to it. In the dip-tych the name is the fifteenth in the successionof bishops of the see. (Xet. Analect. 220; Hist.Litt. de France , ii. 147.) [T. \V. D.]

HEROTES, the bearer of a message to St.Augustine from Honoratus, a Donatist (Aug. Ep.49). [Honoratus (7).] [H. W. P.]

HERRED, a Mercian priest, who attests theact of bishop Deneberht of Worcester, by whichhe grants land for life to a priest named Balthun,between 798 and 822 (Kemble, C. P. 181).

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HERTGENOBERTUS, twenty-first bishopof Limoges between Rusticus and Caesarius, inthe latter half of the 7th century. (Gall.Christ, ii. 505.) [S. A. B.]

HERUMBERTUS (Herctjmbertus, Her-imbiortus, Krkanbkrtus), ST., first bishop ofMinden in Westphalia. If this see was foundedin 780, as the verses and certain chroniclesquoted by the Bollandists assert, it could onlyhave been as an outlying mission, since theprogress of Charles the Great’s campaignsagainst the Saxons could not have admitted ofa more permanent establishment at that time(cf. Rettberg, Kirchengeschichte Peutschlands fii. 446). The chronology which places Her-umbert’s life in the early years of the 9thcentury is more credible (803-813). Little isknown of him, but we learn from the Traditioneset Antiquitates Fuldenses , edited by Dronke, thathe had a sister named Burscuint (c. iv. No. 9,p. 16), and possibly another called Lutburc, anun (c. xli. p. 96), and that he was possessedof considerable wealth, as his gifts to themonastery of Fulda comprised 253 slaves,twenty-three farms, and 170 hides of land(p. 96). He is said to have sprung from a nobleSaxon family, and to have been educated atWurzburg, where he was ordained priest. Heis commemorated July 9, and was succeeded inthe see by Hadowart. (Boll. Acta SS. Jul. ii.727-8; Gams, Series Episc. 294; Rettberg, ii.446-7; Eckhart, Francon. Orient, i. 782-3 ;ii. 25.) [S. A. B.]

HERUS, al. lec. Heros (Hieron. Chron. ann.Chr. 143), bishop of Antioch. [Eros.] [C. H.]

HERVAEUS (Huvarnits), ST., abbat inBrittany in the 6th century. He was the son ofHuvarnion, an accomplished and pious noble, who,