[Alcimus Ecdicius]. Bishop of Vienne, whose calendar-day falls on the 17th of June. He was one of the leaders against Arianism, from which he is said to have converted Sigismund, prince of Burgundy. He was abbot, probably of Misci, surely of Chateaudun, and he presided at the Council of Epaune in 517. He wrote many letters and poems, the principal one extant of the latter being a poem, or rather a series of poems, called On the Creation, On Original Sin, On the Deluge, etc. This poem has been compared to Milton’s Paradise Lost, the similarity having attracted much attention. See also Lives of the Saints.
