Orientius
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- Carme esortativo
- Orientii Commonitorium
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Orientius
- Saint.death_date
- 5th century
- Saint.feast_day
- 1 May
- Saint.venerated_in
- Roman Catholic Church
- Saint.imagesize
- 250px
- Saint.death_place
- Rome
- Saint.titles
- Martyr
- Saint.canonized_date
- Pre-congregation
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Orientius was a Christian Latin poet of the fifth century.
== Biography and work == He wrote the elegiac poem Commonitorium of 1036 verses (divided into two books) describing the way to heaven, with warnings against its hindrances. He was a Gaul (II, 184), who had been converted after a life of sin (I, 405 sq.), was evidently an experienced pastor, and wrote at a time when his country was being devastated by the invasion of barbarians.
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