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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, “Orosius, Ireland, and Christianity”, Peritia 28 (2017): 113–134.

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“Orosius, Ireland, and Christianity”
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Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 28 (2017)
Peritia 28 (2017), Brepols.
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28
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113–134
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Orosius, author of Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri vii, was a Briton, born at latest c. ad 375. Taken by Irish raiders, he spent years (c. ad 400) as a captive, held by traders, on the south shore of the Shannon estuary. He escaped and probably reached Galicia before ad 405. Ordained priest, he served at Bracara (now Braga in Portugal). He corresponded with St Augustine and moved to Hippo in ad 414. Sent to the East by Augustine, he played an undistinguished role at the councils of Jerusalem and Diospolis (ad 415). He settled at Carthage, where he wrote his main work, originally at the instigation of Augustine. He disappears after a voyage to the Balearic Islands. His is the first textual witness to Christianity in Ireland, observed c. ad 400, written up in ad 416-17.
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4th century 5th century Ireland
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Dennis Groenewegen
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