Trophimus of Arles
Template:Short description Template:Infobox saint According to Catholic Tradition, Trophimus of Arles (Template:Langx) was the first bishop of Arles, in today's southern France.
History
It was an early tradition of the Catholic ChurchTemplate:Efn that under the co-Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus (251 AD), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul, to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturninus to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges.
Gregory of Tours, apparently quoting from the Acta of Saint Saturninus, says in effect that Trophimus arrived in Gaul with the first bishops of Tours, Paris, and other cities after the middle of 3rd century, in the consulate of Decius and Gratus.<ref>Bennett, S.A., "Trophimus, 1st bishop of Arles", Dictionary of Early Christian Biography, (Henry Wace, ed.), John Murray and Co., London, 1911</ref>
From the mid-fifth centuryTemplate:Efn local tradition has assimilated Trophimus of Arles with the Trophimus mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a companion of Paul the Apostle. The Martyrium romanum identifies him as the disciple of Paul, but the identification is spurious.Template:Efn Trophîme, as he is in French, does not rate a biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia, but the church at Arles dedicated to him, built from the 12th century onwards over a third-century crypt, is one of the monuments of Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Provence. In its cloister a corner figure in the north gallery, dated about 1180, represents Trophimus.<ref>Berhard Rupprecht, Romanische Skulptur in Frankreich, (Munich) 1975:132-35.</ref>
Trophimus is considered by the Catholic Church the protector of those with gout.<ref name=pie7916>Pietrangeli (1979), p. 16</ref>
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- TROPHIMUS of Arles
- Saint Trophime: numerous photos of the Romanesque architecture