| Saint Venantius Fortunatus | |
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| Born | c. 530 AD, Veneto, Italy |
| Died | c. 600 or 609 AD, Poitiers, France |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | December 14 |
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Saint Venantius Fortunatus or Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c. The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a Liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more Saints Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people 530-c. For the California area code see Area code 530 Events By Place Byzantine Empire Battle of Daras: 600/609) was a Latin poet and hymnodist, and a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Events By Place World The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people Events By Place Asia Edessa is taken by the Sassanids. The tax Census of the Sui Dynasty Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. A hymn is a type of Song, usually religious specifically written for the purpose of praise adoration or Prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight
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Life
Venantius Fortunatus was born in northern Italy somewhere between Valdobbiadene, [1] Ceneda, and Treviso. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Valdobbiadene is a town in the Province of Treviso, Veneto, Italy. This article is about the Italian city for the World War I battle see Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Treviso (Venetian Trevizo, French Trévise, Latin Tarvisium) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. He grew up during the Byzantine reconquest of Italy and was educated at Ravenna. Ravenna is a City and Comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. His later work shows familiarity not only with classical poets such as Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Statius, and Martial, but also with Christian poets, including Arator, Claudian, and Sedulius. Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BCE &ndash September 21, 19 BCE later called Virgilius, and known in English as Virgil or Quintus Horatius Flaccus, ( Venosa, December 8, 65 BC - Rome, November 27, 8 BC known in the English-speaking world as Horace Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC – 17 AD was a Roman poet known to the English -speaking world as Ovid who wrote on many topics including Publius Papinius Statius (ca 45-96 was a Roman Poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature, born in Naples, Italy. Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March 1 40 AD - ca Arator was a Sixth century Christian Poet from Liguria in northwestern Italy. Claudian (lat Claudius Claudianus) was a court Poet to the Emperor Honorius and Stilicho. Coelius (or Caelius, both styles of Praenomen of doubtful authenticity Sedulius, was a Christian Poet of the first
Fortunatus eventually migrated through Germany to Gaul in the mid-560s, probably with the specific intention of becoming a poet in the Merovingian court. The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin After political circumstances impeded his court career, Fortunatus received patronage from various religious figures, including St Gregory of Tours. Saint Gregory of Tours ( November 30, c 538 &ndash November 17, 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and bishop of Tours He became bishop of Poitiers sometime before the year 600. Events By Place World The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people
Works
He is best known for two poems that have become part of the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, the Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis ("Sing, O tongue, of the glorious struggle"), a hymn that later inspired St Thomas Aquinas's Pange Lingua. A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group according to their particular traditions Pange Lingua may refer to either of two Mediaeval Latin hymns of the Roman Catholic Church Pange Lingua Gloriosi Proelium Certaminis - by Venantius Fortunatus He also wrote Vexilla Regis prodeunt ("The banners of the King are lifted"), which is a sequence sung at vespers during Holy Week. The "Vexilla Regis" is a Latin Hymn by the Christian poet Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers This article is about Latin poems and songs For the Early music group see Sequentia (music group. Vespers is the evening Prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, liturgies of the Holy Week ( Latin: Hebdomada Sancta or Maior Hebdomada, "Greater Week" in Christianity is the last week before Easter. This poem was written in honour of a large piece of the "True Cross" that had been sent from the Byzantine Emperor Justin II to Queen Radegunde of the Franks, who after her husband Chlotar I's death had founded a monastery in Aquitaine. The True Cross is the name for physical remnants which by a Christian tradition are believed to be from the actual cross upon which Jesus was crucified Flavius Iustinus (Iunior Augustus (c 520 - 578 was Eastern Roman emperor from 565 to 578 Radegund (also spelled Rhadegund) (c 520–587 was a 6th century Frankish princess who founded the Convent of Our Lady of Poitiers. The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group Chlothar I (or Chlothachar, Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar, giving rise to Lothair; 497 This article concerns the buildings occupied by monastics. For the life inside monasteries and its historical roots see Monasticism. Aquitaine (Aquitània Akitania archaic Guyenne / Guienne (Occitan Guiana) is one of the 26 Regions of France, in the south-western part of The Municipal Library in Poitiers houses an eleventh century manuscript on the life of Radegunde, copied from a sixth century account by Fortunatus.
All in all, Venantius Fortunatus wrote eleven surviving books of poetry in Latin in a diverse group of genres including epitaphs, panegyrics, georgics, consolations, and religious poems. An epitaph (in Greek, &mdash literally " on the gravestone " is a short text honoring a deceased person strictly speaking that inscribed on A panegyric is a formal public speech, or (in later use written verse delivered in high praise of a Person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating His verse is important in the development of later Latin literature, largely because he wrote at a time when Latin prosody was moving away from the quantitative verse of classical Latin towards the accentual meters of medieval Latin. Latin literature, the body of written works in the Latin language remains an enduring legacy of the culture of Ancient Rome. In Poetry, the meter or metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in what is usually regarded as "classical" Latin literature. Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the Liturgical language of the medieval His style sometimes suggests the influence of Hiberno-Latin, in learned Greek coinages that occasionally appear in his poems. Hiberno-Latin, also called Hisperic Latin, was a playful and learned sort of Latin Literature created and spread by Irish monks during the period Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly He also wrote a verse hagiography of St Martin of Tours which is often considered the last epic of antiquity, and a hagiographic life of his patron Queen Radegunde. Hagiography ( is the study of Saints. A hagiography, from Greek (hağios (ἅγιος "holy" or "saint" and graphē (γραφή Saint Martin of Tours (Martinus (316/317 Savaria, Pannonia &ndash November 8, 317, Candes, Gaul; buried November Radegund (also spelled Rhadegund) (c 520–587 was a 6th century Frankish princess who founded the Convent of Our Lady of Poitiers.
Feast Day
Fortunatus is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, commemorated on December 14, primarily in the diocese of Poitiers and certain churches of the Veneto. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Veneto or Venetia ( Vèneto) is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Further reading
- Brennan, B. “The career of Venantius Fortunatus” Traditio, Vol 41 (1985), 49-78.
- George, J. Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and Political Poems. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1995.
- George, J. Venantius Fortunatus: A Latin Poet in Merovingian Gaul. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
- Reydellet, M. Venance Fortunat, Poèmes, 3 vols. , Collection Budé, 1994-2004. The Collection Budé, or the Collection des Universités de France, is a series of books comprising the Greek and Latin classics up
External links
- http://www.catholicforum.com/saints/saintv40.htm
- Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Venantius Fortunatus
- Poems at The Latin Library (Latin)
- Pange, Lingua, gloriosi proelium certaminis (Latin)
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