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Prosper was a native of Aquitaine, and seems to have been educated at Marseilles. In 431 he appeared in Rome to interview Pope Celestine I regarding the teachings of St Augustine and there is no further trace of him until 440, the first year of the pontificate of Pope Leo I, who had been in Gaul and may have met Prosper. In any case Prosper was soon in Rome, attached to the pope in some secretarial or notarial capacity. Gennadius (De script. eccl. 85) mentions a rumour that Prosper dictated the famous letters of Leo I against Eutyches. The date of his death is not known, but his chronicle goes as far as 455, and the fact that the chronicler Marcellinus mentions him under the year 463 seems to indicate that his death was shortly after that date.
Prosper was a layman, but he threw himself with ardour into the religious controversies of his day, defending Augustine and propagating orthodoxy. The PelagiansMedieval philosophers Ancient Roman Christianity Heretics For other people called Pelagius, see Pelagius (disambiguation Pelagius was a British monk who lived from approximately 360 to 435. A preacher, Pelagius found himself in Rome, and became concerned were attacked in a glowing polemical poem of about 1000 lines, Adversus ingratos, written about 430Events Saint Patrick reaches Ireland on his missionary expedition. Peter the Iberian founds a Georgian monastery near Bethlehem. Births Anastasius I, Eastern Roman Emperor Julius Nepos, western Roman Emperor Deaths August 28, Saint Augustine of Hippo, the. The theme, dogmaThis article is on dogma in religion. Other uses of Dogma are at dogma (disambiguation Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas is belief or doctrine held by a religion or any kind of organization to be authoritative or beyond question. Evidence, ana quod ... pestifero vomuit coiuber sermone Britannus, is relieved by a treatment not lacking in liveliness and in classical measures. After Augustine's death he wrote three series of Augustinian defences, especially against Vincent of LerinsSaint Vincent of Lerins (in Latin, Vincentius was a Gallic author of early writings on Christianity. In earlier life he had been engaged in secular pursuits, whether civil or military is not clear, though the term he uses, "secularis militia," might possi (Pro Augustino responsiones).
His chief work was against Cassian 's Collatio, his De gratia del ut libero arbitrio (432). He also induced Pope Celestine to publish an Epistola ad episcopos Gallorum against Cassian. He had earlier opened a correspondence with Augustine, along with his friends TyroIn Greek mythology, Tyro was the daughter of Salmoneus and mother of Pelias and Neleus. Her father, Salmoneus, was the brother of Athamus. Tyro was married to Cretheus (with whom she had one son, Aeson) but loved Enipeus, a river god. She pursued Enipeus, and Hilary of ArlesHilarius of Arles St Hilary (c. 403- 449) was a bishop of Arles. In early youth he entered the abbey of Leribsi then presided over by his kinsman Honoratus ( Saint Honore), and succeeded Honoratus in the bishopric of Arles in 429. Following the example of, and although he did not meet him personally, his enthusiasm for the great theologian led him to make an abridgment of his commentary on the PsalmsPsalms Tehilim , in Hebrew) is a book of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, and of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Because the book consists of songs or chants, a psalm can be used to mean any religious chant or poem of praise. This article, however, d, as well as a collection of sentences from his works--probably the first dogmatic compilation of that class in which Peter LombardPeter Lombard was a scholastic philosopher of the 12th century. His family was poor, but the patronage of St. Bernard allowed him to study at Bologna, at Reims, and at Paris. He later became a professor at the school of Notre Dame in Paris. He is most fam's Liber sententiarum is the best-known example. He also put into elegiac metre, in 106 epigrams, some of Augustine's theological dicta.
Far more important historically than these is Prosper's Epitoma chronicon. It is a careless compilation from Saint Jerome in the earlier part, and from other writers in the later, but the lack of other sources makes it very valuable for the period from 425 to 455, which is drawn from Prosper's personal experience. There were five different editions, the last of them dating from 455, just after the death of Valentinian III. For a long time the Chronicon imperiale was also attributed to Prosper Tiro, but without the slightest justification. It is entirely independent of the real Prosper, and in parts even shows Pelagian tendencies and sympathies.
The Chronicon was edited by Mommsen in the Chronica minora of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (1892). The complete works are in Migne's Patrologia Latina. Tome 51. See L. Valentine, St. Prosper d'Aquitaine (Paris, 1900), where a complete list of previous writings on Prosper is to be found; also A Potthast, Bibliotheca historica (1896).
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica
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