In the following pages we have tried to offer to the interested reader a
translation of three hagiographical texts ftom the original Latin into
Spanish. These biographies, written in the Middle Ages, deal with the life
and passion of Saint Desiderius, bishop of Vienne (t 606 or 607). The
hagiographical biography of Saint Desiderius was told by three different
authors, over several geographical and chronological circumstances, and
with various finalities and motivations, as ftom an ideological point of
view as ftom a literal), perspective. These three biographical text are:
1.- the Vita vel passio Sancti Desiderii a Sisebuto rege composita,
2.- the Passio Sancti Desiderii episcopi et martyris, a work by an
anonymous monk ofVienne (s. VIII?), and 3.- the Passio Sancti Desiderii
episcopi Viennensis, written by Ado, bishop of Vi enne ( t 875 a. C.).
