Prosper of Aquitaine

Who they were

Prosper, a layman of Gaul distinguished for morals, eloquence and zeal, wrote to St Augustine about 428 on the objections raised against his teaching on grace, opening the Semipelagian controversy.

He defended Augustine's teaching in letters and a great poem against the enemies of grace.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

A layman who defended the teaching of grace.

Connected on this site

• Augustine of Hippo Saint Teacher
  “455 AD), also called Prosper Tiro, was a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, and the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.” — Wikipedia
• Palladius Saint
  “Prosper of Aquitaine records that in 429, at the urging of the deacon Palladius, the pope sent St.” — this site's research
• Vincent of Lérins Saint
  “Suspected of semi-Pelagianism, he opposed the Augustinian model of grace and was probably the recipient of Prosper of Aquitaine's Responsiones ad Capitula Objectionum Vincentianarum.” — Wikipedia