John of Biclar

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(born 540 A.D.)

about 590 A.D.

John of Biclar, was born in Lusitania, in 540 A.D., of catholic Gothic parents. He was exiled by King Leovigild to Constantinople, where he eye-witnessed the coming of a delegation from Maqurra to emperor Justin II. (555-578 A.D.). He went back to Spain in 586 A.D., founded a monastery at Biclar, near Tarragona, and became bishop of Gerona in 590 A.D. In his Chronicon, he recorded events which took place in 567-587 A.D. "John of Biclar's statements, based on personal observation or on trustworthy testimonies, are reliable because of his well-known impartiality." (G. Madoz, Enciclopedia Catt.. s.v.)

T.: Mon. Germ. Hist., Auct. Antiquissimi, t. XI, Johannis Abb. Biclarensis Chronicon. Berlin 1898, pp. 207 - 220. / L:0

In the third year of emperor Justin (568 A.D.), the Garamantes sent a delegation expressing their wish to live under the peace of the Roman empire and to embrace the Christian religion. They were soon granted both requests. (MGH Auct.Ant. t XI, p. 212)<ref>"Christian faith", as meant by the Biclarensis, was the dyophysite confession, as pointed out by Monneret de Villard, Storia della Nubia Cristiana, Roma, 1938, p. 66.</ref>

In the seventh year of Emperor Justin (573 A.D.), which is the fifth of king Leovigild, delegates of the people of the Maccuritae arrived at Constantinople. They brought to Emperor Justin presents consisting of elephant tusks, a giraffe, and stated their friendship with the Romans (sibi cum Romanis amicitias collocant).<ref>Monneret claimed that the good relations then existing between the Maccuritae and Byzantium would have been established only by pro-Chalcedonian missionaries from Byzantium</ref> (MGH Auct.Ant. XI, p. 213).


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