Prosper of Aquitaine


Prosper of Aquitaine
Church Father
Theologian
Bornc. 390
Roman province of Aquitaine
Diedc. 455
Rome, Praet. prefecture of Italy
Venerated inRoman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Lutheranism
Anglicanism
Feast25 June[1]/7 July[2]

Prosper of Aquitaine (Latin: Prosper Aquitanus; c. 390c. 455 AD), also called Prosper Tiro,[3] was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.

  1. ^ St. Prosper of Aquitaine
  2. ^ St. Prosper of Aquitaine Oxford Index
  3. ^ He is called Prosper Tiro in several manuscripts of his Epitoma Chronicon. (Steven Muhlberger, "Prosper's Epitoma Chronicon: was there an edition of 443?" Classical Philology 81.3 (July 1986), pp. 240–244).