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A presbyter, father of the Catholic bishop of Thubursicu Bure (North Africa) dies as a result of the assault of the Donatists, AD 404. Augustine, "Against Cresconius", Book 3, ca AD 406.
Book 3
 
47. [...]  Episcopus catholicus a Thubursicubure Seruus nomine cum inuasum a uestris locum repeteret et utriusque partis procuratores proconsulare praestolarentur examen, repente sibi in oppido memorato uestris armatis inruentibus uix uiuus aufugit. A quibus pater eius presbyter aetate ac moribus grauis ea caede, qua uehementer adflictus est, post dies paucos excessit e uita. [...]
 
(ed. Petschenig 1909: 453)
Book 3
 
47. [...] The Catholic bishop of Thubursicu Bure, named Servus, demanded the return of a place invaded by your people. While the representatives of both sides were awaiting the decision of the proconsul, suddenly the armed men of yours entered the village and he barely escaped with his life. His father, presbyter, [venerated] for his age and mores, after a few days died because of the serious injuries inflicted on him by them.
 
(trans. S. Adamiak)
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Latin North Africa
City
  • Thubursicu Bure

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Against Cresconius, Contra Cresconium
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Cresconius was a Donatist layman, described as a grammarian. He wrote a long letter addressed to Augustine, in which he defended the Donatist positions. Augustine responded with a treatise in four books, written certainly after February 405 (the emission of the anti-Donatist laws by Honorius), probably about a year later, but certainly before the conference of Carthage in AD 411.
Edition:
M. Petschening ed., Contra Cresconium grammaticum et Donatistam libri IIII, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 52, Vienna-Leipzig 1909, 325-582.

Categories:

Family life - Offspring
Relation with - Children
Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic
Conflict - Violence
Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER913, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=913
Record by: Stanisław Adamiak
last edited: 2017-01-24 12:12:06
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