Life
Aragon was since 415 West-Gothic and in 812 became Frankish. Prudentius left Spain in his youth, probably on account of take-over by the Saracens, and came to the Frankish Empire and was educated at the Palatine School, where he became Bishop of Troyes shortly before 847. As bishop he changed his native name of Galindo to Prudentius.
At Troyes his feast is celebrated on 6 April as that of a saint, though the Bollandists do not recognize his cult. His works, with the exception of his poems, are printed in Patrologia Latina, CXV, 971-1458. His poems in Mon. Germ. Poetæ Lat., II, 679 sq.
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