Passion of Saint Saturninus of Toulouse

Passio sancti Saturnini

Written about 410 to 450, probably in Tolosa (now Toulouse, France). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The death of Saturninus, first bishop of Toulouse, dragged by a bull in 250, and the later move of his body to a new church.

Acts · first written in Latin

The martyrdom itself is dated 250. The text was written about two centuries later.

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written probable: Pearse, preface to the 2013 translation (in the corpus file): "ca. 410-20, and certainly before 450"; Cabau 2001
Place written probable: Pearse preface: written for the transfer of the relics by bishop Exuperius of Toulouse; https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246694