Palladius of Ratiaria

When did Palladius die?

Palladius of Ratiaria is dated d. c. AD 400 in the archive, which places Palladius in the Nicene Age (AD 313–400). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

What did Palladius write?

Palladius of Ratiaria has 2 catalogued writings in the archive: Apologia against Ambrose and the council (fragments) and The Gesta of the Council of Aquileia against Palladius and Secundianus.

Which early sources mention Palladius?

Palladius of Ratiaria is named in 3 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from The Acts of the Council of Aquileia, Ambrose of Milan (synodal letter) and The Council of Aquileia. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Palladius from?

The archive associates Palladius of Ratiaria with Ratiaria, Dacia. The sources record more than one location, so the places are listed in the order the record moves through them.

[His rebuttal of the 381 proceedings rides the very manuscript that condemns him]

The verbatim stenographic minutes of the council.

[Contemporary conciliar minutes — his own protests taken down verbatim.] Palladius said: 'You have come prepared, and you sit as judges in your own cause; this is no general council, and in the absence of the Eastern bishops I make no answer.' The minutes record him refusing, sentence by sentence, to condemn the letter of Arius, until Ambrose pronounced the deposition.

Palladius and Secundianus, the only two who dared profess the Arian impiety, have been stripped of the priesthood by the judgment of the council, that peace might return to the churches.

In the consulship of the illustrious Syagrius and Eucherius, on the 3rd day of September, the undermentioned Bishops, sitting in council in the church at Aquileia, namely, Valerian, Bishop of Aquileia, Ambrose, Eusebius, Limenius, Anemius, Sabinus, Abundantius, Artemius, Constantius, Justus, Philaster…