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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

501–600

The Sixth Century

1 work

c. 573–576

Latin

The Life of Saint Martin

Vita Sancti Martini

Venantius Fortunatus · c. 530 – c. 609

Sulpicius Severus's prose life turned into two thousand two hundred lines of hexameter by an Italian poet who had come to Gaul after his own eyes were cured at Martin's shrine, and stayed.

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