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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Agobard, Albert Decourtray, Alexandre Renard, Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu, Annemund, Antoine de Montazet, Camille de Neufville de Villeroy, Charles II, Duke of Bourbon, Charles III, Count of Alencon, Francois Paul de Neufville de Villeroy, Genesius of Lyon, Guy of Boulogne, Halinard, Hector Sevin, Hugh of Die, Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac, Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, Jean-Marie Villot, Jean Marie Balland, John of Canterbury, Joseph-Alfred Foulon, Joseph Fesch, Leontius (Archbishop of Lyon), Louis-Joseph Maurin, Louis-Marie Bille, Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald, Nicetius of Lyon, Philippe Barbarin, Philip I, Count of Savoy, Pierre-Hector Coullie, Pierre-Marie Gerlier, Pierre Guerin de Tencin, Remigius of Lyon, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon, Sacerdos of Lyon, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Saint Rusticus (Archbishop of Lyon), Viventiolus, Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf. Excerpt: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon, formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon-Vienne-Embrun, is a Roman Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in France. The current Cardinal Archbishop is Philippe Barbarin. He is the successor of Saint Pothinus and Saint Irenaeus, the first and second bishops of Lyon, respectively, and is called Primate of the Gauls. The "Deacon of Vienne," martyred at Lyon during the persecution of 177, was probably a deacon installed at Vienne by the ecclesiastical authority of Lyon. The confluence of the Rhone and the Saone, where sixty Gallic tribes had erected the famous altar to Rome and Augustus, was also the centre from which Christianity was gradually propagated throughout Gaul. The presence at Lyon of numerous Asiatic Christians and their almost daily communications with the Orient were likely to arouse the susceptibilities of the Gallo-Romans. A persecution arose under Marcus Aurelius. Its victims at Lyon numbered forty-eight, half of them of Greek origin, half Gallo-Roman, among others Saint Blandina, and Saint Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyon, sent to Gaul by Saint Polycarp about the middle of the 2nd century. The legend according to which he was sent by Saint Clement dates from the 12th century and is without foundation. The letter addressed to the Christians of Asia and Phrygia in the name of the faithful of Vienne and Lyon, and relating the persecution of 177, is considered by Ernest Renan as one of the most extraordinary documents possessed by any literature; it is the baptismal certificate of Christianity in France. The successor of Saint Pothinus was the illustrious Saint Irenaeus (177-202). The discovery on the Hill of Saint Sebastian of ruins of a naumachia capable of being transformed into an amphitheatre, and of some fragments of inscriptions apparently belonging to an altar of Augustus, has led several archaeologists to believe that the martyrs of Lyon suffered death on this hill. Very ancient tradition, however, represents the church o
