Passiones martyrum translated into a modern language They were mostly composed during the period 425 675 by anonymous authors who were presumably clerics of the Roman churches or cemeteries which housed the martyrs' remains It is clear that they were composed in response to the explosion of pilgrim traffic to martyrial shrines from the late fourth century onwards at a time when authentic records protocols of their trials and executions had long since vanished and the authors of the passiones were obliged to imagine the circumstances in which martyrs were tried and executed The passiones are works of fiction; and because they abound in ludicrous errors of chronology they have been largely ignored by historians of the early Church Although they cannot be used as.
roman book martyrs mobile The Roman free The Roman Martyrs eBookPassiones martyrum translated into a modern language They were mostly composed during the period 425 675 by anonymous authors who were presumably clerics of the Roman churches or cemeteries which housed the martyrs' remains It is clear that they were composed in response to the explosion of pilgrim traffic to martyrial shrines from the late fourth century onwards at a time when authentic records protocols of their trials and executions had long since vanished and the authors of the passiones were obliged to imagine the circumstances in which martyrs were tried and executed The passiones are works of fiction; and because they abound in ludicrous errors of chronology they have been largely ignored by historians of the early Church Although they cannot be used as.