biography
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Ildefonso de Toledo, San
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pronunciation:
[ildefonsoh thay t
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| lived:
| (607–67)
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| biography:
| Ecclesiastical writer, born in Toledo, C Spain, who became Archbishop of Toledo in 657. He was a signatory of two Councils of Toledo in 653 and 655. His most important work is the Libellus de virginitate perpetua Mariae, adversus tres infideles, which was translated into Spanish by Alfonso Martínez de Talavera (1444; manuscript in the Escorial), reprinted in Migne's Patrologia latina (Vol 96, 1850), and edited by V Blanco García (1937). From this impassioned defence of Mary's perpetual virginity, he became known as ‘el capellán de la Virgen’. Ildefonso also wrote hymns, homilies, a surviving section of the Mozarabic liturgy, and two letters to Quirico of Barcelona, the biographical De virorum illustrium scriptis (in imitation of the Liber de viris illustribus of Isidoro), and Liber in cognitione baptismi. His style is clear and unpretentious. |
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