Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
ABDON and SENNEN - Coronation of the Martyrs (center). Fresco in the Cemetery of Ponziano.
ABDON and SENNEN - Parchment of the relics of the saints deposited by Card. Marco Barbo in the year 1472 in the high altar of the Basilica of S. Marco - Rome.A solis ortus cardine (PL 19, 765-70; I. Huemer, in CSEL, X [1885]); in Hilary, with the hymns Ante saecula qui manes and Fefellit saevam; in Fulgentius of Ruspe, against the Arians (published for the first time by D. C. Lambot, Rev. Bénéd., 48 [1936], pp. 221-34); in Venantius Fortunatus (Carm. I, 16: PL 88, 81 ff.).
But the best known is the Psalmus contra partem Donati by St. Augustine (PL 43, 23-32; M. Petschenig, in CSEL, LI [1908], pp. 3-15; D. C. Lambot, Rev. Bénéd., 47 [1935], pp. 319-30). It Donatism (v.) for popular use, written in a popular rhythm that completely disregards classical meter; the verses are accentual octosyllables, all ending in e (æ), distributed into 20 stanzas starting with the letters of the alphabet from A to V, plus an introductory verse that is repeated as a refrain and a conclusion of 30 verses.
BIBL.: H. Vroom, Le psaume obécédaire de s. Augustin et la poésie latine rhythmique (Latinitas Christianorum primaeva, fasc. 4), Nimega 1933; A. Vaccari, in La Civiltà Catt. 1947, I, pp. 214-220. Michele Pellegrino
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“ABDON E SENNEN.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 61. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/abdon-e-sennen.
