Primary source · Latin
The Sacred History (Chronicle)
Sulpicius Severus · c. AD 403
What this text is
World history from creation to his own day in classical Latin — the key contemporary account of the Priscillianist affair and of bishops who taught the state to execute heretics.
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Public-domain translations
Alexander Roberts (NPNF, 1894)
Priscillian was… put to death, with several companions — an unheard-of thing: a bishop condemned to death by secular judges at bishops' urging. Martin never ceased to declare that it was enough for the heretics to be expelled from the churches, and that this new example was monstrous.
Manuscript witnesses
Vatican, Pal. lat. 824
11th c.The Chronica survive in a single manuscript — including the earliest connected account of the Priscillianist affair.
Provenance
Primuliacum, c. AD 403 — sacred history from Creation to his own day
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Sulpice Sévère: Chroniques (SC 441)Ghislaine de Senneville-Grave, 1999Critical edition with French translation.
- Sulpicius Severus' Chronica (in: TTH translations of the era)Richard J. Goodrich (ACW 70), 2015Modern annotated English translation.