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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 ; 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
Prosper of Aquitaine, TIRO.—The first sure date in the life of Prosper is that of his letter to St. Augustine written under the following circumstances. In 428 or 429 a certain Hilary wrote to St. Augustine in reference to difficulties raised against his doctrine in Marseilles and the neighborhood.
Overview. St Prosper of Aquitaine. (c. 390—455) 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 brief summary of literature since 1901, when L. Valentin published his lengthy and influential study of Prosper, is an elegant bibliographical essay that traces the developments in the study of the text and its author.
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Called 'the best disciple of Augustine,' St. Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 370-c. 463/465) devoted his life to defending Augustine's doctrines of grace and predestination against those who opposed it. Prosper may have been born at Limoges; he may have been married.
