The fame of Anastasius rests upon his numerous translations from the Greek and his supposedconnection with the Liber Pontificalis.^1480 His style is rude and semi-barbarous, but he brought to
the knowledge of the Latins much information about the Greeks. He translated the canons of the
sixth, seventh and eighth oecumenical councils;^1481 the Chronology of Nicephorus;^1482 the collection
of documents in Greek for the history of Monotheletism which John the Deacon had made;^1483 and
the lives of several saints.^1484 He also compiled and translated from Nicephorus, George Syncellus,
and Theophanus Confessor a church history, which has been incorporated with the so-called Historia
Miscella of Paulus Diaconus.
His original writings now extant consist of a valuable historical introduction to the translation
of the canons of the Eighth Oecumenical Council, a preface to that of the Collectanea, three letters
(two to Charles the Bald and one to archbishop Ado),^1485 and probably the life of Pope Nicolas
I.^1486 in the Liber Pontificalis.
§ 178. Ratherius of Verona.
I. Ratherius, Veronensis episcopus: Opera omnia, in Migne, Tom. CXXXVI. col. 9–768 (reprint
of ed. by Peter and, Jerome Balterini, Verona, 1765).
II. See Vita by Ballerini in Migne, l.c. col. 27–142. Albrecht Vogel: Ratherius von Verona und das
- Jahrhundert. Jena, 1854, 2 vols. Cf. his art. in Herzog2, XII. 503–506. Du Pin, VIII.
20–26.Ceillier, XII. 846–860. Hist. de la France, VI. 339–383. Bähr, 546–553.
Ratherius (Rathier) was born of noble ancestry at or near Liège in 890 (or 891) and educated
at the convent of Lobbes. He became a monk, acquired much learning and in 931 was consecrated
bishop of Verona. By his vigorous denunciation of the faults and failings of his clergy, particularly
of their marriages or, as he called them, adulteries, he raised a storm of opposition. When Arnold
of Bavaria took Verona (934), king Hugo of Italy deposed him for alleged connivance with Arnold
and held him a close prisoner at Pavia from February, 935, until August, 937, when he was
transferred to the oversight of the bishop of Como.
In the early part of 941 Ratherius escaped to Southern France, was tutor in a rich family of
Provence, and in 944 re-entered the monastery of Lobbes. Two years later he was restored to his
see of Verona; whence he was driven again in 948. From 953 to 955 he was bishop of Liège. On
his deposition he became abbot of Alna, a dependency of the monastery of Lobbes, where he stirred
up a controversy upon the eucharist by his revival of Paschasian views. In 961 he was for the third
time bishop of Verona, but having learned no moderation from his misfortunes he was forced by,
his indignant clergy to leave in 968. He returned to Liège and the abbotship of Alna. By money he
(^1480) Migne, CXXVII. col. 103-CXXVIII.
(^1481) Migne, CXXIX. col. 27-512. Those of the sixth council are unprinted.
(^1482) Idem. col. 511-554.
(^1483) Collecteana. Idem. col. 557-714.
(^1484) Idem. col. 713-738.
(^1485) Idem. col. 737-742.
(^1486) CXXVIII. col. 1357-1378.