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VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 90 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST , deacon and
martyr
 , whose festival is celebrated on the 22nd of January. In several of his discourses St
Augustine
  pronounces the eulogy of this
martyr
 , and refers to Acts which were read in the church. It is doubtful whether the Acts that have come down to us (Ada Sanctorum, January, ii. 394397) are those referred to by St
Augustine
 , since it is not certain that they are a contemporary document. According to this account, Vincent was born of noble parents in Spain, and was educated by Valerius, bishop of
Saragossa
 , who ordained him to the diaconate. Under the persecution of Diocletian, Vincent was arrested and taken to Valencia. Having stood firm in his profession before Dacianus,
the
governor
 , he was subjected to excruciating tortures and thrown into prison, where angels visited him, lighting his
dungeon
  with
celestial
  light and relieving his sufferings. His warders, having seen these wonders through the chinks of the
wall
 , forthwith became Christians. He was afterwards brought out and laid upon a soft mattress in order that he might regain sufficient strength for new torments; but, while Dacianus was meditating
punishment
 , the saint gently breathed his last. The tyrant exposed his
body
  to wild beasts, but a raven miraculously descended and protected it. It was then thrown into the sea, but was cast up on the shore, recovered by a pious woman and buried outside Valencia. Prudentius devoted one of his hymns (Peristeph. v.) to St Vincent, and St Augustine attests that in his lifetime the festival of the saint was celebrated throughout the Christian world (Seem. 276, n. 4).
See T. Ruinart, A eta martyrum sincera (Amsterdam, 1713), pp. 36466; Le Nain de Tillemont, Memoires pour servir a l'hisloire ecclesiastique (Paris, 1701, seq.), v. 215-225, 673-675. (H. DE.)


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