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active 370-437 Saint Possidius

Best known as the friend and biographer of Saint Augustine, this early Christian bishop gives modern readers a rare close-up view of the ancient Church. His surviving Life of Augustine remains one of the most important firsthand accounts of late Roman North Africa.

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Les confessions de saint Augustin, évêque d'Hippone: précédées de sa vie par S. Possidius, évêque de Calame... ; traduction nouvelle par L. Moreau

Les confessions de saint Augustin, évêque d'Hippone: précédées de sa vie par S. Possidius, évêque de Calame... ; traduction nouvelle par L. Moreau

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine, active 370-437 Saint Possidius

About the author

Possidius was a Christian bishop of Calama in Roman North Africa, active in the late 4th and early 5th centuries. He is remembered above all for his close friendship with Augustine of Hippo and for writing the Life of Augustine, a work that preserves valuable firsthand details about Augustine’s character, daily life, and final years.

He was part of the circle of bishops who worked with Augustine during a turbulent period marked by theological disputes and political upheaval. Because Possidius wrote as both a colleague and witness, his work is especially important to historians of early Christianity.

Very little is known about his life apart from what later tradition and church history preserve, but his reputation has lasted through the single work that bears his name. For readers interested in the early Church, he offers something rare: not just doctrine or legend, but the voice of someone who actually knew one of Christianity’s most influential thinkers.