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Ferrand of Carthage is a Christian theologian of the Roman province of Africa, modern day Tunisia ,^[1] ^[2]who died in 546 or 547.

Biography

Little is known of his early life. At the end of his life, he was a deacon of the Church of Carthage, and a renowned theologian, consulted in 546 by the Roman deacons Pelagius and Anatolius on the affair of the Three Chapters which had just broken out. Ferrand's reply was retained, but Facundus of Hermiane, writing in the winter of 546/47 ^[3] recounts this consultation by referring to Ferrand as " [...] laudabilis in Christo memoriæ Ferrando Carthaginiensi diacono scripserunt ".

Writing

Life of Fulgence of Ruspe

Since Pierre Pithou wrote in 1588 he was generally considered the author of the Life of Fulgence of Ruspe. However, this attribution is not based on any indication of the many manuscripts. Two letters of Ferrand about Fulgence are preserved, where he questions him on points of religion, and there are corresponding answers from Fulgence. At the end of a letter to the Abbe Eugippe , written just after the death of Fulgence ( 532 ), Ferrand evokes the projected drafting of a Life, but without positively saying the author. If Ferrand is the author of this Life, we learn in the prologue that he lived in the little monastery which Bishop Fulgence had founded during his relegation to Sardinia . But one of the last editors of the text, Antonino Isola, casts doubt on his authorship to the point of talking about "Pseudo-Ferrand".^[4] and choosing to nominate Redemptus a monk of Telepte as the author.

Letters

Also Ferrand preserves seven letters^[5]^[6] transmitted in bulk: the two by which he interrogates Fulgence de Ruspe (the first on the question of whether an Ethiopian catechumen, died while administered baptism, was saved, the second on dogma Of the Trinity and the question of whether the divinity of Christ suffered on the cross), and five others, some very long, which are true little treatises on theology (notably the answer to the deacons Pelagius and Anatolius on the Three Chapters, by which he pronounced against the edict of Justinian, or the very long letter to Count Reginus on the duties of a Christian officer, presented in the form of seven rules. The letter to Eugippe, formerly known in a truncated version (still reproduced in PL ), was published for the first time in its integral version in 1828 by Cardinal Angelo Mai , according to a manuscript of Mount Cassin .

On the other hand, Ferrand is the author of the Breviatio canonum ecclesiasticorum , a collection of 232 canons enacted by the oldest Greek and African councils, first published by Pierre Pithou .

References

1. ^Patrologia Latina , vol. 67, col. 877-962 ( Vita Fulgentii , vol 65, col 117-150).
2. ^Scriptorum veterum nova collectio , III, 2, p. 183 sq.
3. ^Facundus d'Hermiane, Pro defensione trium capitulorum , IV, 3.
4. ^Antonio Isola, "Sulla paternità della Vita Fulgentii ", Vetera christianorum , vol. 23, 1986, p. 63-71.
5. ^Pierre Pithou (ed.), Fulgentii Ferrandi Carthaginiensis Ecclesiæ diaconi Breviatio canonum , Paris , 1588.
6. ^Pierre-François Chifflet (ed.), Fulgentii Ferrandi Carthaginiensis Ecclesiæ diaconi opera , Dijon , 1649.