Sidonius Apollinaris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sidonius Apollinaris

Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-0430

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, poet, politician, Catholic priest

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gaius Sollius Modestus Apollinaris Sidonius, better known as Saint Sidonius Apollinaris (5 November of an unknown year, c.
430 – August 489 AD), was a poet, diplomat, and bishop.
Sidonius is "the single most important surviving author from fifth-century Gaul" according to Eric Goldberg.
He was one of four Gallo-Roman aristocrats of the fifth- to sixth-century whose letters survive in quantity; the others are Ruricius bishop of Limoges (died 507), Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, bishop of Vienne (died 518) and Magnus Felix Ennodius of Arles, bishop of Ticinum (died 534).
All of them were linked in the tightly bound aristocratic Gallo-Roman network that provided the bishops of Catholic Gaul.
His feast day is 21 August.