Incipit liber, qui dicitur De vita perdita veritas acceptanda

Ecce opus sancti Pavulonii, a humilite servo dei ex graeco translatus ad maiorem dei atque humanitati beatitudinem, ut qui male affecti sunt, aequo animo dolorem ferrent et gaudere audant. Deus enim maxime contentus est, cum homines viveant beate et eum precare adiuvatum plorantes non debeant. Tunc possunt ei dominum suum dilaudare gratiasque agere rei secundae causa, creavit is enim hominem et mulierem ad laetitiam et eum amandum. In hoc libro docet nos sanctus, ut sine ira et lamentatione omnia mala accipamus, et gaudeamus aliquando facto, quod vita nostra jam perdita et mallum nobis est naturum. Ecce quid vir doctus scripsit.

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Translation and commentary:

The beginning of a book called "The truth about the Lost Life, that must be accepted"

Here is a work of Saint Pavulonius¹, translated from greek by a humble God's servant, for His and People's felicity. So that those who suffer could bear it peacefuly, and dare to be happy. For God is most content, when he sees people live happily and do not cry to him for help. Then they can praise and thank him for the good, becouse He made a man and a woman to be happy and love Him. In this book the Saint teaches us to take everything without anger and tears, and be delighted whatever happened, becouse we have already lost our life, and everything bad is natural to us.


_{1. Pavulonius (?-520), christian filosopher, only few fragments of his work De vita perdita veritas acceptanda are known in translation by an uknown monk from XI century. He shed a Lost-Life Filosophy developing the thought of Seneca Minor. His life was described in "Vita sancti Pavulonii", probably by the same person, who translated his book. The hagiografic work isn't reliable though, and nothing more can be said about this person, than that he lived in the VI century AD.}