Vita beati Antonii
· Ennodius of Pavia (Magnus Felix Ennodius)
· early 6th century (before 521)
· hagiography
Latin · domain: latin-fifth-sixth-century · researched 2026-11-14
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
The Migne prolegomena to Ennodius discuss a saint's life whose title page is lost and identify it as the 'Vita beati Antonii' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur63mign), and the piece is one of the ten opuscula printed in that volume. A library search returns a German parallel edition of Ennodius's two saints' lives, 'Die beiden Heiligenviten' (2016, Latin and German), which shows the work is edited and translated into German, and the 1942 Catholic University of America volume, which translates the Life of Saint Epiphanius only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ennodius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The 2022 Routledge volume covers the poems and does not include prose hagiography. No English translation of the Life of Antony was located.
Antony of Lerins, the monk whose island monastery supplied the bishops of southern Gaul, is known mainly through this Life, which is also a rare specimen of a bishop writing hagiography for a monastic community he knew. English readers have Ennodius's Epiphanius but not his Antony, so the monastic half of his hagiographic output is missing.
Goldie, Francis, 1836-1912. "The life of the Blessed Antony Baldinucci." London : Burns & Oates, 1894. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990072469000203941
"Life of the Blessed Antony Baldinucci." American Theological Library Association, 1894. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153732520903941