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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. Life. Prosper was a native of Aquitaine, and may have been educated at Bordeaux.
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
The original chronicle was probably circulated anonymously, as so many late antique and mediaeval chronicles were, yet at some point it came to be attributed to the famous Gallic chronicler Prosper, who composed an epitome of Eusebius/Jerome and a full continuation of it, which, in its last edition, concluded in 455.
- Mark Humphries
- 2007
PROSPER OF AQUITAINE, or Prosper Tiro (c. 390 - c. 465), Christian writer and disciple of St Augustine, was a native of Aquitaine, and seems to have been educated at Marseilles. In 431 he appeared in Rome to interview Pope Celestine regarding the teachings of St Augustine and then all traces of him are lost until 440, the first year of the ...
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.
The story that Prosper was Bishop of Reggio in Italy was exploded by Sirmondi and others in the seventeenth century. For the origin of this legend see Dom Morin in “Rèvue bènèdictine”, XII, 241 sqq. Prosper was neither bishop nor priest. The question whether he mitigated the severity of St. Augustine’s doctrine has been much debated.
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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.
