Minervius and Alexander

Minervius and Alexander were two monks of Toulouse in southern Gaul, known chiefly as the joint recipients of Jerome's Letter 119 (Epistula ad Minervium et Alexandrum), written around 406 AD. They had written to Jerome from their community asking him to resolve two difficult scriptural questions about the resurrection of the dead, drawn from 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, and his lengthy reply surveys earlier Greek and Latin exegetes on those passages. Beyond this correspondence they are otherwise unattested, and nothing certain is known of their lives, dates, or careers; this database entry treats the pair as a single correspondent because Jerome addressed them together. The collection tags for Theodoret and Symmachus reflect database aggregation rather than any documented connection to those authors.