Everything about Dax France totally explained
Dax is a
commune of
Aquitaine in southwestern
France,
sous-préfecture of the
Landes département.
It is particularly famous as a
spa, specialising in mud treatment for rheumatism and similar ailments.
It is also a market town, former bishopric and busy local centre, especially for the
Chalosse area.
History
It was first established by the Romans, and its reputation is supposed to date from a visit by Julia, the daughter of the first Emperor Octavian Augustus.
Ecclesiastical history
It isn't certain that the patron of the diocese, the martyr St. Vincent, was a bishop. His cult existed in the time of Charlemagne, as is proved by a note of the Wolfenbuttel manuscript of the "Hieronymian Martyrology". The oldest account of his martyrdom is in a
breviary of Dax, dating from the second half of the thirteenth century, but the author knows nothing of the martyr's period. Excavations near Dax proved the existence of a Merovingian seminary on the site of a church dedicated to
St. Vincent of Lérins by Bishop Gratianus. Gratianus, present at the
Council of Agde (506), is the first historically known bishop. Among the other bishops of the see were St. Revellatus (early sixth century), St. Macarius (c. 1060),
Cardinal Pierre Itier (1361),
Cardinal Pierre de Foix (1455), founder of the
University of Avignon and the Collège de Foix at
Toulouse. The synodal constitutions of the
ancient Diocese of Dax, published by
Antoine Degert, are of historical interest for the study of the ancient constitutions and customs of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. M. Degert in the course of this publication has succeeded in rectifying certain errors in the episcopal lists of the
Gallia christiana.
.
The ancient French diocese was suppressed by the
Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, its territory divided between the neighbouring dioceses of
Aire and
Bayonne.
About 1588
St. Vincent de Paul made his first studies with the
Cordeliers of Dax, but good secondary education at Dax dates only from the establishment of the
Barnabites in 1640.
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