Gaul
A small island off the coast of Provence in the western Mediterranean, Lérins Abbey became one of late antiquity's most influential monastic schools, shaping the theology and episcopate of Gaul.
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Lérins through the eras
Under Roman and then Ostrogothic and Frankish overlordship, Lérins — founded c. 410 by Honoratus of Arles — became a nursery of bishops for Gaul, producing figures such as Hilary of Arles, Faustus of Riez, and Caesarius of Arles, whose ascetic theology and semi-Pelagian controversies shaped Western monasticism.
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Lérins. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.