biography
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Julián de Toledo, St
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pronunciation:
[hulian thay to
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.642–90)
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| biography:
| An ecclestiastical writer, a converso, born in Toledo, C Spain. He was educated by San Eugenio and became the last great churchman of the Visigothic period. He was created Archbishop of Toledo in 680, and presided at each of the four Councils of Toledo (the 12th to the 15th) that sat during his decade as Archbishop. His writings were listed by Felix, his successor as Archbishop: Liber prognosticorum futuri saeculi, the defence of Christianity against Judaism; De sextae aetatis comprobatione, which attempts to refute the Talmud, and in so doing shows that the present age is the Messianic age (the sixth); Liber de contrariis, quod graece ... voluit titulo adnotaris, which attempts to reconcile conflicting passages in the Bible; and other minor works. Felix does not mention the important Vita S. Ildefonsi or Ars grammatica. Julian's style is superior to the decadent Latin of his period, while his subject matter is evidence in its depth and variety of a mind adapted to scholarship in the midst of ecclesiastical administration. He continued the De viris illustribus of St Jerome, Gennadius, and San Isidoro de Sevilla, and his systematic approach to the study of theology was not superseded even during the Carolingian Renaissance. |
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