E01932: Augustine of Hippo, preaches a sermon in Carthage (North Africa), in the Basilica Novarum, on the feast day of the *Scillitan Martyrs (martyrs in Carthage from Scillium, S00913). Sermon 37, written in Latin, 397/411.

Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 37

[Sermo habitus in natale martirum Scilitanorum in Basilica Novarum ubi dicit mulierem fortem quis inuenit

'Sermon at the yearly feast of the Scillitan martyrs, preached in the Basilica Novarum, in which he says: "who will find a virtuous woman?"']


In ch. 1 Augustine comments upon Proverbs 31:10 ('who can find a virtuous wife?') and refers these words to the Church, which is the virtuous woman and the mother of the martyrs:

Dies est enim martyrum, et ideo magis laudanda est mater martyrum.

'This is the day of the martyrs, and so we should praise the mother of the martyrs'.

In what follows no martyrs are mentioned.

Text: Lambot 1961, 446-447. Summary and Translation: Robert Wiśniewski.