Sophia Scriptura

Acts of the Purgation of Felix of Aptunga

Acta purgationis Felicis episcopi Autumnitani

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Contents

  1. 0Title of the record.
  2. 1At Abthugni the former duumvir Caecilianus is summoned with his records to Carthage.
  3. 2The clerk Miccius is summoned; the record breaks off.
  4. 3Before the proconsul Aelianus at Carthage, the documents in the case are produced.
  5. 4The record of the earlier hearing at Carthage (19 August 314), in which the Donatist Maximus produced Caecilianus's letter against Felix.
  6. 5Apronianus, for Felix, explains how the letter was forged through Ingentius.
  7. 6Ingentius gives his story; Caecilianus describes how Ingentius sought the letter.
  8. 7Ingentius is put to the rack; Caecilianus repeats his account of the forged request.
  9. 8The letter is read again; Caecilianus identifies the forged addition and names Ingentius.
  10. 9Ingentius confesses the forgery, and the proconsul declares Bishop Felix innocent.

About this work

Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Anonymous record of Donatist-era proceedings (court records and the documents read in them).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
314–315 (events of 303) (probable)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Latin
Genre
other
Reference system
chapter, following Gebhardt's numbering as printed; 0 = title. Chapter numbers the OCR could not read are not separate refs: their text lies inside the preceding ref.
SBL abbreviation
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Text from
Oscar von Gebhardt, ed., Ausgewählte Märtyrerakten (Berlin: Karl Curtius, 1902), item XXI, pp. 205–214 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))