Venantius Fortunatus
Italian saint-bishop, poet and hymnwriter (c. 530-c. 600/609)
b. c. 530 · d. 609
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus, was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a Christian bishop who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
Related people
- Licinian of Cartagena influenced · traditional
Works
- Pange lingua gloriosi proelium certaminis 569
- Vexilla Regis
- Salve festa dies
- Agnoscat omne saeculum 6th century
- Carmina
- carminum appendix
- Hail Thee, Festival Day!
- De virginitate
- Liber de virtutibus sancti Hilarii
- Letters
- See the destined day arise
- Lustra sex qui jam peracta
- Vexilla Regis prodeunt
- vita Martini
- Vita sancti Germani
- Vita sanctae Radegundis
Commemorated
Places
- Valdobbiadene birth
- Poitiers death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.