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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.
This is an explanation of certain passages in St. Augustine’s treatises, “De praedest” and “De dono persev.”, which presented difficulties to some priests at Genoa who asked Prosper for an explanation of them. These three opuscula are placed by Bardenhewer after Prosper’s visit to Rome.
Quick Reference. (c. 390– c. 463), theologian. 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.
the Pope of the time has never been fully charted: Prosper of Aquitaine. Examination of the evidence concerning Prosper's work for Leo the Great, especially that provided by the Leonine corpus of correspondence and sermons, was long bedevilled by the entan glement of the textual question with the prejudices of rival
This chapter explores the relationship between Prosper of Aquitaine and Pope Leo I. It explains that Prosper's influential historical text Chronicle was used by several writers such as Victorious of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, and Liberatus of Carthage, in their own histrographic works.
Saint Prosper of Aquitaine ; 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.
By the 420s Prosper had left his native region of Aquitaine and had relocated to Marseille, perhaps owing to the Vandal invasions and subsequent settlement of the Visigoths, a predominantly Arian group, in Aquitaine.
