He and his brother
St. Viventiolus were the sons of Aquilinus (c. 430-c. 470), a nobleman at Lyon. Aquilinus was the son of Tullia (born 410), the daughter of
Saint Eucherius and his wife Gallia. Tullia's husband, whose name is unknown, was the son of
Decimus Rusticus and his wife Artemia, and was a
vicarius of a province in
Gaul between 423 and 448 under Apollinaris, the father of Aquilinus' schoolfellow and friend,
Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 400). ==Bishop==