(Updated December 29, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Ecclesiastical Writer, Valerius of El Bierzo.
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Valerius of El Bierzo, The Life of St. Fructuosus of Braga
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After the new brightness of heavenly truth flooded in upon the ancient darkness of the world, the grandeur of the teachings of the Catholic faith shone forth from the seat of Rome, the foremost seat of the Holy Church, and most excellent examples of sacred religion blazed out from Egypt, the province of the East, and the edge of this slender Western shore began to shed forth light, divine piety lit two glorious lamps of outstanding brightness, namely [St.] Isidore [of Seville], a most reverend man, bishop of Seville and the most blessed [St.] Fructuosus, a man who from his birth was just and beyond reproach. The former was famous for his oratory, outstanding in his labors, and, stepped in the arts of learning, was foremost in renewing the tenets of the Roman church. The latter, set alight by the flame of the Holy Spirit in his most sacred vocation of a religious life, excelled so perfectly in every spiritual discipline and all his holy works that he easily made himself equal in merit to the Theban Fathers.
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