The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Bouches-du-Rhone. Foundedabout 600 B. c. by a colony of Phoenicians and takenby Caesar in 49 B. c, Marseilles was captured by theVisigoths in a. d. 480; later it belonged to the Burgun-dians, afterwards, from , to the OstrogothTheodoric and his successors. In 537 it was ceded to the Franks under Childebert and annexed to the King-dom of Paris. Later the city was divided between Sige-bert of Austrasia and Gontran of Burgundy. It hadvario
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . Bouches-du-Rhone. Foundedabout 600 B. c. by a colony of Phoenicians and takenby Caesar in 49 B. c, Marseilles was captured by theVisigoths in a. d. 480; later it belonged to the Burgun-dians, afterwards, from , to the OstrogothTheodoric and his successors. In 537 it was ceded to the Franks under Childebert and annexed to the King-dom of Paris. Later the city was divided between Sige-bert of Austrasia and Gontran of Burgundy. It hadvarious masters until Boson became King of Bur-gundy-Provence (879). The Marseilles of the MiddleAges owed allegiance to three sovereignties. The epis-copal town, for which the bishop swore fealty only tothe emperor, included the harbour of La Johette, thefishermans district, and three citadels (Chateau Ba-bon, Roquebarbe, and the bishops palace). The lowertown belonged to the viscounts and became a republicin 1214; and the abbatial town, dependent on theAbbey of St. Victor, comprised a few market townsand chateaux south of the harbour. In 1246 Mar-. Notre-Dame-de-la-Ciarde, Marseilles seilles was subjugated by Charles of Anjou, Count ofProvence. Finally, in 1481 it was annexed by LouisXI to the crown of France. Bishops of Marseilles.—Mgr Duchesne has provedthat the traditions which make St. Lazarus the firstBishop of Marseilles do not antedate the thirteenthcentury. A document of the eleventh century relativeto the consecration of the church of St. Victor byBenedict IX (1040) mentions the existence of relics ofSt. Lazarus at Marseilles but does not speak of him asa bishop. In the twelfth century it was believed atAutun that St. Lazarus was buried in their cathedral,dedicated to St. Nazarius; that St. Lazarus had beenBishop of Marseilles was yet unknown. The earliestProvencal text in which St. Lazarus is mentioned asBishop of Marseilles is a passage of the Otia Imperi-alia of Gerv
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