Name
Vincentius, martyr of Agen
Saint ID
S00432
Number in BH
BHL 8621-8625
Reported Death Not Before
585
Reported Death Not After
593
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Lesser clergy
| ID | Title | E00367 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Martyrs (Liber in Gloria Martyrum), in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. Overview entry. | E00658 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Martyrs (104), tells how *Vincentius (martyr of Agen, S00432) punished soldiers who in 585 broke into his church at Agen (south-west Gaul), robbing and killing those sheltering within. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. | E02265 | Gregory of Tours, in his Histories (7.35), tells of how king Guntram's troops, pursuing Gundovald the Pretender to Comminges (south-west Gaul) in 585, burn the locked doors of the church of *Vincentius (martyr of Agen, S00432) near Agen (south-west Gaul), and ransack the building, where the residents had placed their good for the saint's protection; the offending soldiers are struck with divine vengeance. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 585/594. | E04846 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 9 June. | E05555 | Venantius 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. | E05586 | Venantius Fortunatus, in a poem (1.8) on a church 'beyond the Garonne' of *Vincentius (martyr of Agen, S00432), praises Leontius, bishop of Bordeaux, for giving it a new roof of tin, in 542/571; perhaps at Agen (south-west Gaul). Written in Latin in Gaul, 565/576. | E05611 | Venantius Fortunatus, in a poem (1.9) on a church of *Vincentius (probably the martyr of Agen, S00432), built at 'Vernemetis' by Leontius, bishop of Bordeaux, in 542/571, also mentions miracles occurring at the site; presumably within the diocese of Bordeaux. Written in Latin in Gaul, 565/576. |
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