This morning I started with my copy of the second edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church to see what information they have on Vincent. It’s a short entry: “St. Vincent (4th cent.), the proto-martyr of Spain. According to a tradition of the late fourth century onwards, referred to be St. Augustine [of Hippo] and by Prudentius [a Spanish Latin poet and hymn-writer] who died c. 410, “St. Vincent was educated and ordained deacon by Valerius, Bishop of Saragossa, and suffered in the Diocletianic persecution.”[1]
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