La costruzione di una leggenda agiografica: la Passio sancti Vigilii BHL 8603

In this text, two distinct composition moments can be individuated: the first, the life and martyrdom of Vigilius (= BHL 8603, Prol.; I-VII.1), is ascribable to an authorial personality; the second is the composite story of the saint’s post-mortem miracles, related to the return to Trento and burial of his remains, and to the thaumaturgical power of the martyr’s gesta (= BHL VII.2-VIII.6). The original collocation of the final chronological note (= BHL 8603, VIII.7) is also investigated.