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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fortunatus
Shortly afterwards Brunehild renounced Arianism for Catholicism and Fortunatus extolled this conversion (VI, 1a).
Fortunatus also took part in ecclesiastical life, assisting at synods, being invited to the consecration of churches, all of which occasions were made the pretext for verses.
Fortunatus has been praised for abstaining from the use of mythological allegory, despite the fact that his epithalamium for Sigebert is a dialogue between Venus and Love.
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 Patron Saints Index: Saint Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
A wanderer up to then, when Venantius became a bishop he became a model of temperance and stability, and was known for his love of food and friends and joy.
He wrote hymns, essays, funeral elegies, homilies, and metrical lives of the saints including Saint Martin of Tours (which runs to 2,243 hexameter lines), Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Saint Germanus of Paris, Saint Albinus of Angers, Saint Paternus of Avranches, Saint Marcellus of Paris, and Saint Radegund.
He is considered the last of the Gallic Latin poets, and one of the first Christian poets to write works devoted to Mary.
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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus spent his childhood in Aquileia, Italy, which had been ravaged the century before by Attila the Hun.
Venantius then moved on to the Loire Valley, where the air is sweet, the wine good, and finally ended up in Poitiers.
Venantius was a happy man with an easy sense of humor.
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 VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMENTIANUS FORTUNATUS - LoveToKnow Article on VENANTIUS HONORIUS CLEMENTIANUS FORTUNATUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The later poems of Fortunatus were collected in II books, and consist of hymns (including the Vexilla regis prodeunt, Englished by J. Neale as The royal banners forward go), epitaphs, poetical epistles, and verses in honor of his patroness Radegunda and her sister Agnes, the abbess of a nunnery at Poitiers.
His prose is stiff and mechanical, but most of his poetry has an easy rhythmical flow.
An edition of the works of Fortunatus was published by C. Brower at Fulda in 1603 (2nd ed., Mainz, 1617).
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Venantius Fortunatus, a priest at Poitiers, wrote her biography.
Radegund/Venantius Fortunatus wrote "De excidio Thuringiae", which means "The Fall of Thuringia".
It is a story of her family, her murdered brother Berthachar, her cousin Hamalafred who was exiled to Constantinople (a response to Radegund's letter to Byzantium stated that Hamalafrid died "in the service of the emperor"--"Venantius Fortunatus" by Judith George).
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The later poems of Fortunatus were collected in i 1 books, and consist of See also:
works of Fortunatus was published by C. Brower at See also:
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