E04434: Augustine of Hippo preaches in Latin a sermon on martyrs. Sermon 335B, delivered on an unspecified date, probably in 410/421, in an unknown city in North Africa, possibly in Hippo.
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 335B
[De natale sanctorum martyrum
'On the birthday of some martyrs']
The sermon is entirely devoted to the martyrs, but does not refer to any specific personage, place or form of cult. Augustine quotes a fragment of an imaginary dialogue between the judge and the martyr, which however does not seem to be taken from any specific acts of the martyrs.
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Ecclesiastics - bishops
Source
The sermon is tentatively dated to AD 410-412 on the basis of intertextual references, but this dating is far from being sure. It was possibly preached in Hippo, Augustine's episcopal see.
Bibliography
Text:
Morin, G., Sancti Augustini Sermones post Maurinos reperti (Miscellanea Agostiniana, vol. 1; Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1930).
Translation:
Hill, E., The Works of Saint Augustine. A Translation for the 21st Century, vol. III 9, Sermons 306-340A on the Saints (New York: New City Press, 1994).
Dating:
Kunzelmann, A., "Die Chronologie der sermones des hl. Augustinus," Miscellanea Agostiniana, vol. 2 (Rome: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1931), 417-452.