medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> > His Passiones are relatively late.
>
> Well, that was a widespread view prior to the work of Victor Saxer.
> BHL 8631 (the standard account) was in existence by the middle of the
> sixth century. Saxer thinks that the brief BHL 8638 is close to the
> text of a Passio that circulated in the fifth century. See his _Saint
> Vincent diacre et martyr: Culte et légendes avant l'An Mil_
> (Bruxelles: V, 2002; Subsidia Hagiographica, vol. 83).
Incidentally, Gillian Mackie has recently made a good case for reidentifying the
saint depicted in the early 5th-century Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna as
St Vincent, rather than St Lawrence, which is the most widely published
identification.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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