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Salvian (săl`vēən), fl. 5th cent., Christian writer of Gaul. His Latin name was Salvianus. He was a monk and priest of Lérins (from c.424) and became a renowned preacher and teacher of rhetoric. Of his several works two treatises and nine letters are extant. De gubernatione Dei [on the governance of God] is in eight books, of which the first five are Salvian's. Incomplete as it is, it is a moving indictment of contemporary Roman and Gallic society and a call to true Christian living. The other work, usually called Contra avaritiam [against avarice], is a plea for generosity to the Church.
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No references found | Writers as diverse as Bishop Leo of Rome, the late-fifth-century Saint Severinus of Austria and Salvian, a priest near Marseille, all describe a collapsing world of constant invasion, loss of security, wide-scale rape and murder, with civilization retreating to fortified enclaves, beset by those who wanted its wealth, but nothing of what initially created it. Church Fathers such as Jerome, John Chrysostom, Rufinus, and Salvian held fast that Christ never laughed, it stems from the fact that the only two New Testament mentions of laughter (Luke 6:21 and 25) occur in menacing contexts. Later the Christian monk Salvian took the sins of Rome upon himself, saying, "We wish to sin, but not to be punished. |
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