E01121: Augustine of Hippo, in his City of God (22.8), tells how a dead boy was brought back to life after his father laid his body on the memorial shrine of unnamed martyrs, possibly the *Twenty Martyrs (martyrs of Hippo, S00703), in Hippo Regius (North Africa). Written in Latin in Hippo, c. 426/427.
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posted on 2016-02-14, 00:00 authored by robertAugustine of Hippo, City of God 22.8
Item que apud nos uir tribunicius Eleusinus super memoriam martyrum, quae in suburbano eis est, aegritudine exanimatum posuit infantulum filium, et post orationem, quam multis cum lacrimis ibi fudit, uiuentem leuauit.
'Likewise Eleusinus, a man of tribunician rank among us, laid his infant son, who had died, on the shrine of the martyrs, which is in the suburb, and, after prayer, which he poured out there with many tears, he took up his child alive.'
Text: Dombart and Kalb 1955. Translation: Dods 1887 (slightly changed).
Item que apud nos uir tribunicius Eleusinus super memoriam martyrum, quae in suburbano eis est, aegritudine exanimatum posuit infantulum filium, et post orationem, quam multis cum lacrimis ibi fudit, uiuentem leuauit.
'Likewise Eleusinus, a man of tribunician rank among us, laid his infant son, who had died, on the shrine of the martyrs, which is in the suburb, and, after prayer, which he poured out there with many tears, he took up his child alive.'
Text: Dombart and Kalb 1955. Translation: Dods 1887 (slightly changed).
History
Evidence ID
E01121Saint Name
Twenty martyrs, ob. at an unknown date at Hippo Regius : S00703Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - OtherLanguage
- Latin
