Ado (also Adon, Adonis Viennensis) (d. 875), archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia, belonged to a famous Frankish house, and spent much of his middle life in Italy. Events By Place Europe December 29 — Charles the Bald, king of West Francia, is crowned emperor The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal see Vienne in the Isère département of southern France was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese --> Lotharingia or Lorraine was a short-lived kingdom in The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest He held his archiepiscopal seat from 850 till his death on the 16th of December 874. Events 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Fanyang, initiating the An Shi Rebellion Events By Place Europe Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling Several of his letters are extant and reveal their writer as an energetic man of wide sympathies and considerable influence. Ado's principal works are a Martyrologium[1], and chronicle, Chronicon sine Breviarium chronicorum de sex mundi aetatibus de Adamo usque ad ann. A martyrology is a catalogue or list of Martyrs (or more precisely of Saints, arranged in the calendar order of their anniversaries or feasts 869[2].
Ado's chronicle is based on that of Bede, with which he combines extracts from the ordinary sources, forming the whole into a consecutive narrative founded on the conception of the unity of the Roman Empire, which he traces in the succession of the emperors, Charlemagne and his heirs following immediately after Constantine VI and Irene. Bede (ˈbiːd (also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin Beda (beda (c The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Charlemagne (ˈʃɑrlɨmeɪn Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus meaning Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814 was King of the Franks from 768 to his See also Ecumenical Patriarch Constantine VI of Constantinople. Irene Serantapechaina, known as Irene of Athens or Irene the Athenian ( Greek: Ειρήνη η Αθηναία Eirēnē) (c "It is," says Wattenbach, "history from the point of view of authority and preconceived opinion, which exclude any independent judgment of events. Wilhelm Wattenbach ( September 22, 1819 &ndash September 20, 1897) was a German Historian. "
Ado wrote also a book on the miracles (Miracula) of St. Bernard, archbishop of Vienne (9th century), published in the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum; a life or Martyrium of St. Desiderius, bishop of Vienne (d. A miracle is an event believed to be caused by interposition of Divine intervention by a Supernatural being in the Universe by which the ordinary operation Saint Bernard (778 – 23 January 842) was Bishop of Vienne from 810 until his death The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The Bollandists are an association of scholars - originally all Jesuit, but now including non-Jesuits -- philologists and historians -- who since the early seventeenth century Acta Sanctorum ( Acts of the Saints ' is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints in essence a critical Desiderius of Vienne (died 607 was Bishop of Vienne and a chronicler 608)[3]; and a life of St. Events By Place Europe Eochaid Buide succeeds Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata. Theudericus, abbot of Vienne (563)[4]. The word abbot, meaning Father, is a title given to the head of a Monastery in various traditions including Christianity.