Caesaraugusta

“[…] We are off to Caesaraugusta at first light,” Paul explained. “I fear we were not allowed much time in the province to conduct our business.”

Shortly after, a provincial council in Caesaraugusta stressed that a close watch should be kept on whether former Arian clerics were adhering to Catholic structures.

The legend is that after his early visit up the Iber and contact in Caesaraugusta by the Virgin Mary, James returned to Jerusalem where he was executed in 44 AD.

In Pelosi’s view, it is entirely plausible that Prudentius wrote the poem and circulated it in Caesaraugusta, where local readers, possibly clerics, “reminded the poet that he had forgotten these two martyrs,” which impelled them to promptly add them to the poem.