EURIOIUS

RUSTICIANUS

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charius he had afterwards to leave this fieldof labour. After two years and another visitto Home, he turned eastward into the valleyof the Danube, and, on the invitation of Theo-dore, duke of Bavaria, took up his residenceat Ratisbon: there he finally established thefaith, and completed the Columbanian mission ofEustasius [Eustasius (6)] by baptizing dukeTheodore and his courtiers. In the restlessspirit of the Celt, he left Ratisbon and proceededfurther down the Danube: for a time he wasat Laureacum, and at last fixed upon the ancientJuvavum, now Salzburg on the river Salza, a con-fluent of the Danube, as his seat. After visitinghis own country, and returning with twelve mis-sionaries and his niece, St. Erentrude, for whomhe built the monastery of Nonnenberg, he diedand was succeeded by Vitalis as bishop. Butthe dates are altogether uncertain, his deathbeing placed in years varying from A.D. 560to A.D. 718, the latter being the more likely.He was buried in his own church of St.Peter’s in Salzburg, and his feast is March27 (Mabillon, Anal. iv. 63 sq. and A . SS. 0, S. B.iii. i. 325 sq.; Canisius, Thes. iii. pt. ii. 264-, sq.;Hist. Litt. de la France , iii. 448; Herzog,ReaUEnc. xiii. 167, giving a critical sketch andthe later date; Gall . Christ, v. 662). [J. G.]

RURICIUS (1) I., thirteenth bishop ofLimoges between Petrus I., if he belonged to thissee, and Ruricius II., in the latter half of the 5thcentury, is known as the author of two booksof letters, which have survived. He belonged toan illustrious Gallic family connected with theAnicii of Rome (Venant. Fort. Epitaph.), andmarried Iberia the daughter of a patrician houseof Auvergne. Sidonius Apollinaris wrote theirepiihalamium (Carm. xi., Migne, Pair. Lat.lviii. 705-8). After some years they separatedto lead the religious life (Faustus, Epist. ix., Pair.Lat. lviii. 861), and about 484 he was electedbishop of Limoges, a see which had been vacantsome years, and was in a depressed condition(cf. Rur. Epist. ii. 32). We know little of hisepiscopate, except that he built a church inhonour of St. Augustine of Hippo, in which hewas afterwards buried, and that chronic ill-healthinterfered with the discharge of his duties. Theletters written by and addressed to him shewthat he was on terms of friendship with thechief ecclesiastical personages in Gaul of histime, Sidonius Apollinaris, Faustus of Riez,Laesarius of Arles, and others. His deathoccurred about 507. Though usually countedamong the saints, he has no day in the hagiologies.together with his grandson, Ruricius II., heorrned the subject of a laudatory epitaph byVenantius Fortunatus (Pair. Lat. lviii. 123).

The two books of letters are of little import-ance historically, being chiefly occupied withnvial^ matters of personal interest and piousejections. They were first published byanisius, and may be also found in Migne, Pair,a . lviii. 67-124. They are discussed in ther\f ’ Lltt iU - 4 9 sqq., and Ceillier, x. 607-9. Foreuers addressed to him see Migne, Pair. Lat1U * 54:5 > 602 i 8 G3 seqq., and Ceillier, x. 609-10.

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® 14th bishop of Limoges,veen Rnticius L and Exotius, was, with his

grandfather Ruricius I., the subject of an epitaphby Venantius Fortunatus, from which it appearsthat he built the church of St. Petrus deQuadrivio ( Pair . Lat . lviii. 124). There wasprobably an interval between him and his pre-decessor, though we are unable to fill it up.He was present in 535 at the first Council ofClermont, and in 541 at the fourth of Orleans,and was represented by deputy in 549 at thefifth of Orleans. He probably died about 553{Gall. Christ, ii. 503). [S. A. B.J

RUSTICA, patrician lady of Naples, men-tioned in two letters of Gregory the Great{Epp. iii. 63; ix. 24). From them it appearsshe had died about A.D. 579, having by her willdirected a nunnery and oratory to be founded inhonour of the Virgin in her house at Naples, andbequeathed to it one-third of her property. Shebequeathed the residue of her property to herhusband on condition of his founding a monasteryin Sicily, and paying her legacies to her freed-men within a year of her death, with a gift overif the condition was not fulfilled to the Romanchurch of her estate at Cumae on the sametrusts. Her intentions were not carried out formany years. [F. D.]

RUSTICIANA (1), daughter of Symma-chus the patrician, and wife of Boethius, whopraises her highly {De Cons. ii. Pr. 4). Afterthe deaths of her husband and father, she livedon at Rome, giving largely to the poor of hergreat wealth. She lost all at the taking of Romeby Totila, and was herself reduced to beg herbread. The Goths wished to kill her, accusingher of having bribed the Roman generals to de-stroy the statues of Theoderic in revenge for themurders of her father and husband, but Totilaallowed no harm to be done to her. (Procop. iii.20.) [F. D.]

EUSTICLANA (2), a Roman lady of highrank and great wealth, probably a descendantof the Symmachi (Mai, Praefatio in SymmachiOrat. xvii.), an intimate friend and correspondentof Gregory the Great {Epp. ii. 27 ; iv. 46 ; viii.22; xi. 44; xiii. 22). It appears from theseletters that she made a pilgrimage to Palestineand Mount Sinai; that she afterwards lived forseveral years at Constantinople, where she hadmuch influence with the emperor Maurice ; thatshe sent at different times ten pounds of gold toredeem prisoners, curtains for St. Peter’s, andalms for the monastery of St. Andrew, at Rome;that she had estates in Sicily, and that she suf-fered from gout. [F. D.J

KUSTICIANUS (Rusticanus), a youngsubdeacon, who, being excommunicated by thepresbyter under whom he served, on account ofhis misconduct, and the debts which he hadcontracted, and having taken refuge in theDonatist party, was rebaptized by them (Aug.Ep. 106, 107, 108 ; Macrobius (2). Thismust have been about A.D. 409. In the art.Maximinus (5) will be found an account of asimilar transaction, in respect of a deacon ofMutigenna, whose name is not mentioned (Aug.Ep. 23. 2). The date of this latter case wouldbe about A.D. 392. A discourse, discovered byJerome Vignier in a single MS., and attributedto St. Augustine, combines the two transactions,identifying the subdeacon Rusticianus with the

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