Vigilantius, a priest in Gaul, attacked the honour paid to the relics of the martyrs, vigils at their tombs, and the belief that the saints pray for us. St. Jerome answers him, in one night's writing he says.
Short, fierce, and a useful early witness on the veneration of the saints.
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Translated by W. H. Fremantle, with G. Lewis and W. G. Martley, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 6 (1893), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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