Peristephanon (Crowns of Martyrdom)

Prudentius · 405 · Before the division · public-domain-original

4 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

Fourteen long hymns on martyrs, mostly Spanish and Roman. They are devotional poems written a century or more after the deaths they describe, not documents — but they are the earliest connected accounts of several of these martyrs and they show what was believed at Rome and in Spain about 400. Hymn 2 is Lawrence, 14 is Agnes, 5 is Vincent of Saragossa.