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Prosper of Aquitaine (Latin: Prosper Aquitanus; c. 390 – c. 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.
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (born c. 390, Lemovices, Aquitania—died c. 463, probably Rome; feast day July 7) was an early Christian polemicist famous for his defense of Augustine of Hippo and his doctrine on grace, predestination, and free will, which became a norm for the teachings of the Roman Catholic church.
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Prosper Tiro of Aquitania was living at Marseilles when the Semipelagian controversy broke out (426). He wrote to St Augustine, and in 431, after Augustine's death, he went to Rome to secure Celestine I's support for Augustinian teaching.
Prosper’s main attention goes to the leading military men – Constantius, Castinus, Boniface and Aetius. Prosper credited the revival of the empire to the actions of Constantius, Honorius’ general who defeated Constantine iii and rid Gaul of the remaining tyrants (411-415).
It was compiled by a man whose sympathies were not with St. Augustine, and who was formerly supposed to be Tiro Prosper and not Prosper of Aquitaine, but this theory has broken down, for Prosper of Aquitaine in some MSS. of the “Consular Chronicle” is called Tiro Prosper.
Prosper Tiro of Aquitania was living at Marseilles at the outbreak of the *Semipelagian controversy (426), probably as a lay monk. In ...
PROSPER OF AQUITAINE, ST. Lay theologian and papal secretary; b. apparently Limoges, France, c. 390; d. probably Rome, Italy, after 455. Nothing is known of Prosper's background other than that he had an excellent classical education, was married, and read deeply in theology.
