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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Augustine, bishop of Hippo, ob. 430

Saint ID

S00077

Number in BH

BHL 784a-801k

Reported Death Not Before

430

Reported Death Not After

430

Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Bishops , Writers
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00073The Latin Life of *Augustine (bishop of Hippo, ob. 430, S00077) is written by his former pupil Possidius, bishop of Calama: it presents him as an efficient polemicist, writer, and administrator of his diocese. Written in Calama (Numidia, central North Africa) in the 430s.
E02199Calendar of the Church of Carthage (central North Africa) lists saints whose liturgical commemorations were celebrated in August. Written in Latin in Carthage, probably between 505 and 535.
E04606The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 11 January.
E04933The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 28 August.
E05555Venantius Fortunatus writes eleven books of Poems in Latin, mainly in western and north-western Gaul, 565/600; many of them with reference to saints. Overview entry.
E05608Bede, in his Martyrology, records the feast on 28 August in Africa of *Augustine (bishop of Hippo, ob. 430, S00077), whose relics King Liutprand recently moved from Sardinia to Pavia (northern Italy). Written in Latin at Wearmouth-Jarrow (north-east Britain), 725/731.
E05690Venantius Fortunatus, in a poetic epitaph (Poem 4.5) for two bishops of Limoges, grandfather and grandson, both named Ruricius, writes that one constructed a church to *Augustine (bishop of Hippo, ob. 430, S00077), the other a church to *Peter (the Apostle, S00036), both in Limoges (central Gaul), in 485/560. Written in Latin in Gaul, 565/576.
E05858The Calendar of Willibrord, in its earliest version, records the feasts of various saints in August. Written in Latin at Echternach, Frisia (north-east Gaul), 703/710.
E06283The Latin Life of *Caesarius (bishop of Arles, ob. 542, S00491), records in two books the bishop's life, miracles (several through objects that had been in contact with the saint), and death. Several churches and feasts in Arles are mentioned. Written by five clerics of the ecclesiastical province of Arles (southern Gaul), 542/5.
E0831535 relic labels at Sens (northern Gaul), datable by their script to the 7th or 8th c., for relics of a great diversity of saints. Written in Latin, perhaps at Sens, or at an earlier stage in their transmission.