Gregory of Elvira

Gregory Baeticus (died c. 392) was the

He is venerated in Spain as a saint, his feast being celebrated on 24 April.

Works

Gregory found time also for literary labours. St. Jerome says of him that he wrote, until a very ripe old age, a diversity of treatises composed in simple and ordinary language (mediocri sermone), and produced an excellent book (elegantem librum), De Fide, which is said to be still extant

The same may be said of the first seven of the twelve books De Trinitate, the authorship of which has been ascribed to Vigilius of Thapsus.[6] A few commentators have also sought to prove that Gregory Bæticus was the writer of the tractatus De Libris Sacarum Scripturarum, published by Pierre Batiffol (Paris, 1900) as the work of Origen. It has been impossible to ascertain the authorship in question.

There is preserved a letter to him from Eusebius of Vercelli.^[7] As St. Jerome, in his De Viris Illustribus, written in 392, does not mention Gregory as being dead, the supposition is that the latter was still living at the time. He must, however, have been then a very old man and cannot in any event have long survived the year 392.

References

• Florio, De Sancto Gregorio Illiberitano, libelli de Fide auctore (Bologna, 1789)
• Morin, Les Nouveaus Tractatus Origenis et l'heritage litteraire de l'eveque espagnol, Gregoire d'Illiberis in Revue d'historie et de literature relig. (1900, V, 145 sq.)
• Bardenhewer, Patrologie, tr. Shahan (St. Louis, 1908), 415
• Gams, Kirchengeschichte vom Spanien (Ratisborn, 1864), II, 256 sq.
• Kruger, Lucifer, Bischof von Calaris, und das Schisma der Luciferianer (Leipzig, 1886), 76 sq.
• Leclerqu, L'Espagne chrétienne (Parish, 1906), 130 sq.

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