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Encyclopædia Orbis Latini: Venantius Fortunatus

http://www.orbilat.com/Encyclopaedia/V/Venantius_Fortunatus.html

Biographical profile of the bishop and Latin poet.

For All the Saints: Venantius Fortunatus

http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/1214.htm#vena

Biographical essay.

Fortunatus

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06149a.htm

Lengthy biographical article on the talented sixth-century poet and hymn-writer. In the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Fortunatus Window

http://www.rcab.org/tourofcathedral/fortunatus.html

Venantius Fortunatus depicted in stained glass at Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston.

Pange Lingua Gloriosi

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11441c.htm

Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia on the two hymns of this name. The second is by Thomas Aquinas. The first is "generally credited" to Venantius Fortunatus, though some believe it is the work of Claudianus Mamertus.

Patron Saints Index: Venantius Fortunatus

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv40.htm

Profile, with links.

St. Venantius Fortunatus

http://www.hullp.demon.co.uk/SacredHeart/saint/StVenantiusFortunatus.htm

Brief biographical profile.

Venantius Fortunatus

http://www.paperwrk.com/venfort.html

Text and translation by James DenBoer of 25 poems from Book XI of Opera Poetica.

Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop, c.530-c.603

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/venant1.html

Brief biography and a translation of one of his secular poems.