Jerome, Against Vigilantius 4–6
About this date: A broad attributed range; literary setting is not historical verification.
Jerome reports Vigilantius’s criticism of martyr honors in section 4, distinguishes honoring martyrs from treating them as gods in section 5, and defends apostles and martyrs praying for others with Christ in section 6. This is a polemical defense, not a narrated invocation of a particular martyr.
Reception
patristic
Sources and further reading
- Against Vigilantius
Read Vigilantius through Jerome’s hostile report; no independently preserved Vigilantius text is supplied here.