The Passio Vincentii transmitted in the texts of Prudentius

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William Clemence

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The following article analyzes the texts of Prudentius, a famous Christian poet, which presents Vincent’s figure, a martyr from the 5th century, and narrates his martyrdom in reason to his non-submission to the order of denying the Christian faith by sacrificing to the gods. This narrative is found in a collection of


poems called Peristephanon, but specifically in the books IV-V, in which the poet initially praises the eighteen martyrs of Saragossa; afterwards he remains in Saint Vincent’s passion, that consists in a series of verbal confrontations, when his executioner, Dacian, tries to persuade him through flattering or threatening words, and of physical confrontations, being his adversary full of rage and with cruelty, but nothing of this is capable of corrupting his inner-self, thus elevating Saint Vincent to glory of martyrdom. The motivations of Prudentius’s writing of those poems on the martyrs were his ascetic ideal, which corresponds to a kind of daily martyrdom, his stay in Italy, where the cult of martyrs was strongly celebrated, and his bishop’s encouragement to introduce the martyr’s cult in the Church of Spain; all this resulted in these poems of singular style and piety.

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Clemence, W. (2022). The Passio Vincentii transmitted in the texts of Prudentius. Brasiliensis, 11(20), 23-53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8332823
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Clemence, W. (2022). The Passio Vincentii transmitted in the texts of Prudentius. Brasiliensis, 11(20), 23-53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8332823

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