Prudentius of Troyes

Saint Prudentius of Troyes (Galindo), born in Aragon and died on 6 April 861 at Troyes, was bishop of Troyes, a chronicler and an opponent of Hincmar of Reims in the controversy on predestination. In his youth he left Aragon (fleeing, according to one source, from the Saracens) and came to Francia, where he changed his baptismal name Galindo to Prudentius. He was educated at the Palatine School and, at the court of King Louis the Pious, took over from about 835 until his death the writing of the Annals of Saint-⁠Bertin. He became bishop of Troyes in 843.

In the dispute between Gottschalk of Orbais, Archbishop Hincmar of Reims and Bishop Pardulus of Laon, he opposed Hincmar in an epistle of about 849, in which he defends a double predestination, one for reward, the other for punishment, though not for sin. At Troyes his feast is kept on 6 April as that of a saint, though the Bollandists do not recognize his cult. His works, with the exception of the poems, are printed in the Patrologia Latina. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church in western calendars, commemorated on 6 April (new style; 19 April in the old style).