{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/007/0070366.htm","path":"chr/ecf/007/0070366.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/007/0070366.htm","text":"There is no ms authority for ascribing the above to Lactantius. \u201cIt does not, in the least, come up to the purity and eloquence of his style,\u201d says Dupin; and the same candid author notes the \u201cadoration of the cross\u201d as fatal to any such claim. 2102\nOf the following poem, on Easter, Dupin says: \u201cIt is attributed to Venantius upon the testimony of some mss. in the Vatican Library.\u201d This writer became known to Gregory of Tours, who died about a.d. 595, and seems to have succeeded him as bishop, dying soon after. Bede quotes his verse on St. Alban, 2103 \u2014\n \u201cAlbanum egregium fecunda Britannia profert,\u201d\nbut styles him \u201cpresbyter Fortunatus.\u201d He was the author of a poem on St. Martin, and another, In Laude Virginum. His works were edited by Brouverius, a Jesuit.\nThe reader will be pleased with a reference, on p. 330, infra, to the (then recent) conversion of our Saxon forefathers in Kent.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VII: Lactantius: General Note","type":"page"}