Lyon

What this place is

• School or library — Leidrad and Florus rebuilt the cathedral school and its library after 800, and Florus's own annotated books survive to show what was in it.

Seat of

• Bishop of Lyon

Who is recorded here

• Blandina birth · AD 101
• Irenaeus ministry · AD 157
• Blandina death · AD 177
• Irenaeus ministry · AD 178
• Eucherius of Lyon birth · AD 380
• Alpinus of Lyon death · AD 390
• Eucherius of Lyon death · AD 449
• Patiens of Lyon birth · AD 450
• Saint Clotilde birth · AD 474
• Veranus of Vence death · AD 480
• Sacerdos of Lyon birth · AD 487
• Caretene death · AD 506
• Caretene burial · AD 506
• Stephen of Lyon death · AD 512
• Aurelianus of Arles death · AD 551
• Nicetius of Lyon death · AD 573
• Florus of Lyon birth · AD 800
• Lupicinus of Lyon death

What happened here

• Persecution under Marcus Aurelius AD 161
• The martyrs of Lyons and Vienne AD 177
• Irenaeus succeeds Pothinus at Lyon AD 178
• Irenaeus writes Against Heresies AD 180
• Irenaeus writes to Victor about the Pascha AD 190

In art

• The Meeting of Marie de' Medici and Henry IV at Lyons — Peter Paul Rubens (1623)
• Saint Bonaventure at the Council of Lyon — Francisco de Zurbarán (1629)
• River Landscape with the Fort Saint-Jean and the Chateau Pierre-Scize in Lyon — Jan Asselijn (1650)
• Cathedral of Lyon — Karel Dujardin (1655)
• View of the Saône and the Château Pierre-Scize (Lyon, France) — William Marlow (1750)

About the place

Lyon is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, and 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland.

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