Paschasinus
A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [1]
Paschasinus (2) , bp. of Lilybaeum in Sicily, c. 440, when that country was devastated by Vandal raids (Leonis Magni, Ep. iii. c. i. Migne's ed., note e ). LEO Great, sending him pecuniary assistance, consulted him about the Paschal cycle (a.d. 443). He replies in favour of the Alexandrian computation against the Roman, but in an abject strain of deference to his patron. He relates in confirmation of his view a miracle which used to occur in the baptistery of an outlying church on the property of his see on the true Paschal Eve every year, the water rising miraculously in the font ( ib. c. 3). In 451 he received another letter from Leo desiring him to make inquiries as to the Paschal cycle ( Ep. lxxxviii. c. 4) and sending him the Tome to stir up his energies in the cause of orthodoxy. Immediately after he was sent as one of Leo's legates to the council of Chalcedon ( Ep. lxxxix.) and presided on his behalf (Labbe, Conc. vol. iv. p. 580 E, etc. The phrase "synodo praesidens," however, does not occur in the Acta of the council, but only in the signatures of the prelates representing Rome.)
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a Romish prelate of note in his day, flourished near the middle of the 5th century. We first encounter him in A.D. 451, when he was bishop of Lilybaeum, in Scily, as papal legate at the Council of Chalcedon. He there represented the interests of the Roman pontiff, together with Lucentius, bishop' of Asculum, and Bonifacius, a presbyter. Paschasinus, of whose previous history and position in life we know nothing, seems to have held the chief place among the three legates, since he subscribed the acts of the council in the name of the pope before the two others. An epistle of Paschasinus, De Quaestione Paschali, is still extant, addressed to Leo in reply to some inquiries from the pontiff with regard to the calculations for determining the festival of Easter. It will be found under its best form in the editions of the works of Leo published by Quesnel and by the brothers Ballerini. See Schonemann, Biblioth. Patrum Lat. vol. ii, 49; Bahr, Geschichte der ionm. Literatur, suppl. vol. pt. ii, 166; Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Biog. and Mythol. 3:131; Ceillier, Hist. des Aut. Sacrls, 10:170-175, 201 sq., 682 sq., 701.
