Ecclesiastical history of Braga
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The region around the city of Braga, in modern Portugal, was an important centre for the spreading of Christendom in the Iberian Peninsula. This is reflected in the number of religious personalities associated with the region and the fact that many ecumenical councils were held in the city.
Historical outline
The tradition that Peter of Rates, a disciple of James the Great, preached here, is handed down in the ancient Breviary of Braga (Breviarium Bracarense) and in that of Évora; but this, according to the Bollandists, is purely traditional. Auditus of Braga is called the third bishop of the city.[1] Paternus was certainly bishop of the see about 390.
In its early period the Diocese of Braga produced the writer Paulus Orosius (fl. 418). At the beginning of the eighteenth century a contest was waged over the birthplace of Orosius, some claiming him for Braga and others for Tarragona. The Marquis of Mondejar, with all the evidence in his favour, supported the claim of Braga; Pablo Ignacio de Dalmases y Ros, the chronicler of Catalonia, that of Tarragona.
Avitus of Braga, a contemporary writer of lesser importance, was a priest who went to the East to consult with Augustine at the same time that Orosius, who had been sent by Augustine, returned from consulting Jerome. It was through Avitus that the priest, Lucian of Caphar Gamala near Jerusalem, made known to the West the discovery of the body of Stephen (December, 415).
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