The Presbyters Project

Chapter 29

[...] Novi quoque eumdem et presbyterum et episcopum pro quibusdam energuminis patientibus ut oraret rogatum, eum que in oratione lacrimas fundentem Deum rogasse, et daemones ab hominibus recessisse. [...]

(ed. A.A.R. Bastiaensen 1975: 210)

Chapter 29

[...] I know also that both while he was presbyter and bishop, when asked to pray for certain demoniacs, he entreated God in prayer with many tears and the demons departed from the men. [...]

(trans. H.T.Weiskotten; http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/possidius_life_of_augustine_02_text.htm#C4)

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

City

Hippo Regius

About the source:

Author: Possidius
Title: Life of Augustine, Vita Augustini
Origin: Calama (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

Possidius lived from 391 in the monastic community of Augustine in Hippo. After 397 he became bishop of Calama. Between AD 432 (the death of the Roman General Bonifatius) and AD 437 (the exile of Catholic bishops by the Vandal King Geiseric) he composed "The Life of Augustine", a substantially reliable biography of Augustine.

Edition:

A.A.R. Bastiaensen ed., Vita dei santi III, Roma-Milano 1975, 130-240.

Categories:

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

PR165.

Ritual activity - Presiding at prayer

PR165.

Ritual activity - Exorcism

PR165.

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER1384, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=1384