Almost all that we know of Severus's life comes from a few allusions in his own writings, some passages in the letters of his friend Paulinus, bishop of Nola, and a short biography by the historian Gennadius of Massilia.

* Gennadius of Massilia, priest and historian

The main biographical references for Orosius come from the writings of Gennadius of Massilia and Braulio of Zaragoza, although his own writings should not be overlooked.

Nothing specific is known about his life, but on the basis of a bibliography given by Gennadius of Massilia in his book about famous men ( 22, 13 ) there have been an important number of attempts to reconstitute Nicetas ' work.

* Gennadius of Massilia, 5th-century historian, best known for his work De Viris Illustribus

Gennadius of Massilia ( died c. 496 ), also known as Gennadius Scholasticus or Gennadius of Marseille, was a 5th century Christian priest and historian.

Gennadius was a priest of Massilia ( now Marseille ) and a contemporary of Pope Gelasius I.

Nothing is known of his life, save what he tells us himself in the last of the biographies he wrote: " I, Gennadius, presbyter of Massilia, wrote eight books against all heresies, five books against Nestorius, ten books against Eutyches, three books against Pelagius, a treatise on the thousand years of the Apocalypse of John, this work, and a letter about my faith sent to blessed Gelasius, bishop of the city of Rome ".

# REDIRECT Gennadius of Massilia

Gennadius of Massilia ( fifth cent.

The only ancient writers who mention him are Gennadius, presbyter of Massilia ( end of 5th century ), in his De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, and Pope Gelasius in De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis, in which his works are classed as Apocryphi, probably on account of certain heterodox statements contained in them.

Gennadius considers ( like later writers, e. g. Thomas Aquinas ) that all men, even those alive at the Second Coming, will have to die.

Gelasius reigned from 492-496, so Gennadius must have lived at the end of the fifth century.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

The city's famous patriarchal basilica, the Hagia Sophia, had already been converted into a mosque by the conquerors, so Gennadius established his seat at the Church of the Holy Apostles.

While holding the episcopal office Gennadius drew up, apparently for the use of Mehmed, a confession or exposition of the Christian faith, which was translated into Turkish by Ahmed, judge of Beroea ( and first printed by A. Brassicanus at Vienna in 1530 ).

Gennadius was unhappy as patriarch, and tried to abdicate his position at least twice, in 1456 he resigned.

Lastly, there are many homilies by Gennadius, most of which exist in manuscript at Mount Athos ( Codd.

He seems to have been still living at Marseilles when Gennadius wrote under the papacy of Gelasius ( 492-496 ).

Gennadius was a presbyter at Constantinople when he succeeded Anatolius in 458 as the Bishop of Constantinople.

The Emperor Leo protected the ascetic, and some time later sent Gennadius to ordain him priest, which he is said to have done standing at the foot of the column, because Saint Daniel objected to being ordained and refused to let the bishop mount the ladder.

* Gennadius, present at the Council of Nicaea ( Heinrich Gelzer, Patrum Nicaen.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

* " The Art and Culture of Medieval Crete: between Venice and Byzantium " by Maria Georgopoulou, Director of Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

* Martyrs Felix and Gennadius, at Uzalis in Africa

Underneath letters by St. Jerome and Gennadius was the almost complete text of the Institutes of Gaius, probably the first student's textbook on Roman law.

His abilities attracted the notice of the Roman emperor Leo I, over whom he obtained great influence by the arts of an accomplished courtier, which led to his succession to the seat of Patriarch on the death of the Gennadius in 471.

Gennadius burnt it in 1460, however in a letter to the Exarch Joseph ( which still survives ) he details the book, providing chapter headings and brief summaries of the contents.

Gennadius states that he composed a number of other works, most of which are not extant:

There is a treatise called De Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus (" Of Church Doctrine ") which was originally attributed to Augustine of Hippo but is now universally attributed to Gennadius.

The cathedral church of the Holy Wisdom was seized and turned into a mosque, and the Sultan Mehmed II assigned to the Greek Patriarch Gennadius Scholarius the church of the Holy Apostles, which thus became the new administrative centre of the Greek Orthodox Church.

He also made a catalogue of one hundred and seventy-one ecclesiastical writers and their works from Gennadius to his own time, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, which mentions his own work.

According to Theodorus Lector, during the patriarchate of Gennadius ( 458-471 ) the body of the martyr was transferred to Constantinople and interred in a church which had hitherto been known as " Anastasis " ( Gr. Anastasis, Resurrection ); thenceforth the church took the name of Anastasia.

The Ottoman sultan Mehmed II and Gennadius II.

Following the revolt, Gennadius fled to Damascus and asked for aid from Muawiyah, to whom he had paid tribute for years.

The caliph sent a sizable force with Gennadius to spread Islam and expand the Arab empire in Africa in 665.

In Western culture, a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD about a story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, refers to lucid dreaming.

His ordination is vouched for by Gennadius, but no details of his priestly activity have reached us.

* July 3 – Gennadius I becomes patriarch of Constantinople.

* Acacius becomes patriarch of Constantinople and succeeds Gennadius I.

In response, the Emperor sent three envoys to negotiate with Attila: Gennadius Avienus, one of the consuls of 450, Memmius Aemilius Trygetius, the former urban prefect, and Leo.

* Gennadius I, patriarch of Constantinople, banishes Timothy II, patriarch of Alexandria.

He bestowed the office of Patriarch in 1454 to the illustrious Byzantine scholar-monk George Scholarius, who was well known for his opposition to union with the Latin West, who took the name of Gennadius II.

Gennadius says that Vincentius died, " Theodosio et Valentiniano regnantibus.

Gennadius II ( in Greek Γεννάδιος Β ') ( lay name Georgios Kourtesios Scholarios, in Greek Γεώργιος Κουρτέσιος Σχολάριος ) ( c. 1400 – c. 1473 ), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1454 to 1464, philosopher and theologian, was one of the last representatives of Byzantine learning, and a strong advocate of Aristotelian philosophy in the Eastern Church.

After the death of John VIII in 1448, Georgios entered the Pantokrator monastery in Constantinople under Constantine XI ( 1448 – 1453 ) and took, according to the invariable custom, a new name: Gennadius.

It was to Gennadius that the angry people went after seeing the Uniate services in the great church of Hagia Sophia.

After the fall of Constantinople, Gennadius was taken prisoner by the Turks.

Mehmed therefore sought the most anti-Western cleric he could find as a figure of unity for the Greeks under Turkish rule-and Gennadius as leading anti-Union figure was a natural choice.