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href="/wiki/File:Saint_Aphrodisius.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Saint_Aphrodisius.JPG/150px-Saint_Aphrodisius.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="209" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Saint_Aphrodisius.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="169" data-file-height="236" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">25 May 7 AD<br />Egypt</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">traditionally 28 April 65 AD<br />Béziers</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Venerated in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_saints" title="Calendar of saints">Feast</a></th><td class="infobox-data">28 April</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Saint_symbolism" title="Saint symbolism">Attributes</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Depicted as a <a href="/wiki/Cephalophore" title="Cephalophore">cephalophore</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Patron_saint" title="Patron saint">Patronage</a></th><td class="infobox-data">his relics were carried in a procession during times of drought or plague.<sup id="cite_ref-sunnyfrance.net_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnyfrance.net-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Aphrodisius</b> (<a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>: <i lang="fr">Saint Aphrodise, Afrodise, Aphrodyse, Aphrodite</i>) is a <a href="/wiki/Saint" title="Saint">saint</a> associated with the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_B%C3%A9ziers" class="mw-redirect" title="Diocese of Béziers">diocese of Béziers</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Languedoc" title="Languedoc">Languedoc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_France" title="Southern France">Southern France</a>. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Gregory_of_Tours" title="Gregory of Tours">Gregory of Tours</a>, Aphrodisius was an <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian people">Egyptian</a> who was martyred in <a href="/wiki/Languedoc" title="Languedoc">Languedoc</a> along with his followers <b>Caralippus</b> (Caralampus), <b>Agapius</b>, and <b>Eusebius</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_org_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic_org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legend">Legend</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aphrodisius&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Legend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> tradition states that he was a prefect or high priest of <a href="/wiki/Heliopolis_(Ancient_Egypt)" class="mw-redirect" title="Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt)">Heliopolis</a> who sheltered the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Family" title="Holy Family">Holy Family</a> at <a href="/wiki/Hermopolis" title="Hermopolis">Hermopolis</a> when they <a href="/wiki/Flight_into_Egypt" title="Flight into Egypt">fled into Egypt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_org_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic_org-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Aphrodisius learned of the <a href="/wiki/Miracles_of_Jesus" title="Miracles of Jesus">miracles of Jesus</a> from <a href="/wiki/Alexandrian_Jews" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexandrian Jews">Alexandrian Jews</a> returning from a <a href="/wiki/Pilgrimage" title="Pilgrimage">pilgrimage</a> in <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>. According to Christian legend, Aphrodisius went to <a href="/wiki/Palestine_(region)" title="Palestine (region)">Palestine</a> to meet Jesus and became one of his disciples. After the <a href="/wiki/Resurrection" title="Resurrection">Resurrection</a>, Aphrodisius received the Holy Spirit at <a href="/wiki/Pentecost" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a>. He accompanied <a href="/wiki/Sergius_Paulus" title="Sergius Paulus">Sergius Paulus</a> to <a href="/wiki/Provence" title="Provence">Provence</a>. They evangelized <a href="/wiki/Narbonensis" class="mw-redirect" title="Narbonensis">Narbonensis</a>: Sergius settled in Narbonne. The legend continues that Aphrodisius arrived at Béziers mounted on a <a href="/wiki/Camel" title="Camel">camel</a> and became a <a href="/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit">hermit</a> in a cave near the city.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_ency_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic_ency-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-eocf_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eocf-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lived in it a long time before becoming a bishop. </p><p>Local traditions assign Aphrodisius as the first <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_B%C3%A9ziers" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Béziers">Bishop of Béziers</a> and state that he was <a href="/wiki/Decapitation" title="Decapitation">decapitated</a> by a group of pagans, along with his companions, on the street now known as <i>Place Saint-Cyr</i>, the site of a Roman circus used for <a href="/wiki/Gladiator" title="Gladiator">gladiators</a>' fights. </p><p>Aphrodisius was executed by beheading. The head was kicked into a well, but the water gushed out and the decapitated Aphrodisius <a href="/wiki/Cephalophore" title="Cephalophore">picked up his own head</a>, and carried it through the city. Townspeople spilt <a href="/wiki/Snails" class="mw-redirect" title="Snails">snails</a> on the road and Aphrodisius stepped on them without breaking one. Several <a href="/wiki/Stonemasons" class="mw-redirect" title="Stonemasons">stonemasons</a> began to mock him, calling him a madman. They were miraculously punished by being turned into stones (visitors still point out their seven stone heads on the Rue des Têtes, "the street of the heads"). </p><p>Aphrodisius left his head at the cave that he had previously occupied. This was a spot on which later stood a chapel dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Saint Peter</a>, later a basilica named after Aphrodisius (<i>Saint-Aphrodise</i>). This martyrdom is supposed to have occurred on 28 April 65 AD, during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pittoresque_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pittoresque-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the story, after the death of his master, the camel was taken care of by a compassionate family of potters. When Aphrodisius was recognized as a saint, the city's leaders considered as an honour to take charge of all the expenses associated with the animal's maintenance. They offered it a house at the beginning of a street and this road, after the camel's death, took the name of "rue du Chameau" ("Camel Street"), afterwards rue Malbec.<sup id="cite_ref-pittoresque_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pittoresque-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beziers_camel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is considered the origin of the local "fêtes de Caritach" (feasts of charity). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historicity">Historicity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aphrodisius&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Historicity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <i>Bréviaire de Béziers</i>, during the 14th and 15th centuries, he was presented as bishop and confessor who died of <a href="/wiki/Natural_causes" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural causes">natural causes</a>. It was only during the 16th century that new legends of his beheading were created. At the same time, the legend of the camel was also devised.<sup id="cite_ref-sunnyfrance.net_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sunnyfrance.net-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aphrodisius was probably a figure of the 3rd century.<sup id="cite_ref-eocf_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eocf-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are several saints with the name of <i>Aphrodisius</i>. The old martyrologies bear five saints with this name: the bishop of Béziers; a martyr of <a href="/wiki/Tarsus_(city)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarsus (city)">Tarsus</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cilicia" title="Cilicia">Cilicia</a> celebrated on 21 June; another martyr killed in Cilicia with 170 companions on 28 April c. 86 AD; another killed at <a href="/wiki/Beit_She%27an" title="Beit She'an">Scythopolis</a>, honoured on 4 May; and a martyr of Alexandria killed with several companions, honoured on 13 May. There is also a bishop of <a href="/wiki/Hellespont" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellespont">Hellespont</a> with this name who at the beginning of the 4th century defended the Resurrection against a sect led by a man named Hierax. </p><p>The first literary account of the life of Aphrodisius of Béziers is probably that of <a href="/wiki/Ado_(archbishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ado (archbishop)">Ado</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Carolingian" class="mw-redirect" title="Carolingian">Carolingian</a> author, who introduces the mission of Aphrodisius into the acts of <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Narbonne" title="Paul of Narbonne">Paul of Narbonne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eocf_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eocf-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gregory of Tours, in his <i>History of Franks</i>, mentions Aphrodisius. The first mention of the sanctuary dedicated to Aphrodisius is made by <a href="/wiki/Usuard" class="mw-redirect" title="Usuard">Usuard</a>, who undertook a voyage in 858 to bring back from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> <a href="/wiki/Relics" class="mw-redirect" title="Relics">relics</a> for his abbey. In his relation of the voyage, he says to us that after "having left Cordoba, he returned by <a href="/wiki/Girona" title="Girona">Girona</a>, Narbonne and Béziers, a city famed for its relics of blessed Aphrodisius".<sup id="cite_ref-eocf_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eocf-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veneration">Veneration</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aphrodisius&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Veneration"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There was a custom of leading a camel in the procession at Béziers on the feast of the saint.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_ency_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic_ency-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pittoresque_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pittoresque-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "camel" was actually a mechanical camel of wood with a moving head and jaws, covered with a painted fabric on which the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">armorial bearings</a> of the city and two inscriptions were inscribed: the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <i>ex antiquitate renascor</i> ("I'm reborn from Antiquity") and the local <a href="/wiki/Occitan_language" title="Occitan language">Occitan</a> <i>sen fosso</i> ("we are numerous"). This machine, which did not really resemble a camel, concealed in its sides a few operators who made its head, jaws and teeth move. This camel was utilized during all local, religious, and political festivals.<sup id="cite_ref-pittoresque_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pittoresque-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This mechanical camel was led during the processions by a costumed figure named Papari,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was escorted by other men disguised as <a href="/wiki/Woodwose" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodwose">wild men of the woods</a>, whose heads were decorated with leaves. They danced to the sound of a <a href="/wiki/Bagpipe" class="mw-redirect" title="Bagpipe">bagpipe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pittoresque_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pittoresque-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around the camel, <a href="/wiki/Herder" title="Herder">herdsmen</a> fought a mock battle.<sup id="cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beziers_camel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The camel was burned during the <a href="/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" title="French Wars of Religion">Wars of Religion</a> and again during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. The custom was revived in 1803 only to be discontinued during the <a href="/wiki/July_Revolution" title="July Revolution">Revolution of 1830</a>, when it was considered a symbol of <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Religious_fanaticism" title="Religious fanaticism">religious fanaticism</a>. Today, it continues to run through the city's streets during local holidays. The current head dates from the eighteenth century. In the 1970s, it was proposed that the camel be remade to give it a real camel's appearance. However, the townspeople protested and the camel retained its traditional appearance.<sup id="cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beziers_camel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The roots of this particular tradition are possibly to be found in the pre-Christian festivities dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Bacchus</a>, imported by the <a href="/wiki/Phocaeans" class="mw-redirect" title="Phocaeans">Phocaeans</a> to southern France; Bacchus was sometimes depicted riding a camel.<sup id="cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beziers_camel-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aphrodisius&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-03-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Catholic+Online&rft.atitle=St.+Aphrodisius+-+Saints+%26+Angels+-+Catholic+Online&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholic.org%2Fsaints%2Fsaint.php%3Fsaint_id%3D1485&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAphrodisius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In French, their names are Caralippe, Agape et Eusèbe.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-catholic_ency-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-catholic_ency_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-catholic_ency_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHerbermann1913" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Montpellier"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Montpellier">"Montpellier" </a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a></i>. 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Histoire de France, Patrimoine, Tourisme, Gastronomie</i> (in French)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2018-03-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=La+France+pittoresque.+Histoire+de+France%2C+Patrimoine%2C+Tourisme%2C+Gastronomie&rft.atitle=Coutumes+et+traditions+%3A+chameau+de+B%C3%A9ziers+et+saint+Aphrodise+%28H%C3%A9rault%29&rft.date=2009-09-09&rft.aulast=PITTORESQUE&rft.aufirst=LA+FRANCE&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.france-pittoresque.com%2Ftraditions%2F59.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAphrodisius" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-beziers_camel-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-beziers_camel_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sunnyfrance.net/histoiredebeziers/camel_UK.htm">Lou Camel</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Possibly a variation of Papalin/Papalino, a soldier of the Pope. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.sunnyfrance.net/histoiredebeziers/camel.htm">http://www.sunnyfrance.net/histoiredebeziers/camel.htm</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aphrodisius&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.france-pittoresque.com/traditions/59.htm">LA FÊTE DE SAINT-APHRODISE OU LE CHAMEAU DE BÉZIERS</a></li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://eocf.free.fr/text_aphrodyse.htm">Saint APHRODYSE</a></li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sunnyfrance.net/histoiredebeziers/camel.html">Lou Camel de Béziers</a></li> <li><span class="languageicon">(in French)</span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sunnyfrance.net/histoiredebeziers/legendes.html">Saint Aphrodise</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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