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Clerics of Saint Viator
St. Viator, lector of the cathedral at Lyons, France, lived in the fourth
century and is the earliest type of the teacher of the cathedral schools, In the
exercise of the then important functions of the lectorate, namely in reading and
expounding the Scriptures to the people and in catechizing the children, he
displayed that zeal and ability for which he was held in such high esteem by his
bishop, Saint Just, and by the Christian flock of Lyons. Hagiographers refer to
him as a most holy youth, who on account of his eminent virtues was much
beloved by his bishop
. After the Council of Aquileia (381) St. Just decided to
spend the remainder of his life in the penitential solitudes of Thebais, and
selected young Viator as the companion of his voluntary exile. Both the aged
bishop and his youthful lector died in the odour of sanctity in an austere
monastery of Scété in the year 389. The feast of St. Viator, according to the
Roman martyrology, is observed on 21 October.
Because St. Viator had sanctified himself in teaching the young, he was selected as the patron of a community of parochial clerics or catechists, who are priests and teaching brothers living on a footing of religious equality. This community, known as the Clerics of St. Viator, was founded in the year 1835 by the Very Rev. Father Louis-Joseph Querbes, pastor of the village of Vourles in the Archdiocese of Lyons. …
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