Possidius of Calama
Also: Possidius
Born: the year and the place are not known. Died perhaps from 437; the place is not known.
Friend of Augustine for forty years, bishop of Calama, and writer of his life.
Wrote in Latin.
Places lived
- 391 to 397Hippo Regius (now Annaba, Algeria)monkyears probable
- 397 to 437Calama (now Guelma, Algeria)bishopyears probable
Works
1 work, in the order they were written. 1 work can be read here.
- Life of Saint AugustineThe life of Augustine as bishop, by a man who lived with him, with a list of his writings.27,600 words
How we know the dates and places
- Born not known
- H. T. Weiskotten, Sancti Augustini Vita scripta a Possidio (1919), introduction (the text in the corpus)
- Place of birth not known
- H. T. Weiskotten, Sancti Augustini Vita scripta a Possidio (1919), introduction (the text in the corpus)
- Died not sure
- Prosper, Chronicle, year 437: driven from his see by Gaiseric; nothing later
- Place of death not known
- H. T. Weiskotten, Sancti Augustini Vita scripta a Possidio (1919), introduction (the text in the corpus)
- Hippo Regius, years probable
- H. T. Weiskotten, Sancti Augustini Vita scripta a Possidio (1919), introduction (the text in the corpus): in the monastery of Augustine
- Hippo Regius, place sure
- Possidius, Life of Augustine 5 and 31; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305090
- Calama, years probable
- H. T. Weiskotten, Sancti Augustini Vita scripta a Possidio (1919), introduction (the text in the corpus): bishop from about 397; he fled to Hippo in 428-431
- Calama, place sure
- Possidius, Life of Augustine 12; Augustine, Letters 91 and 104; site: Pleiades https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305039