Practicing these virtues is considered to protect one against temptation from the seven deadly sins, with each one having its counterpart. The intense popularity of this work in the Middle Ages helped to spread the concept of holy virtue throughout Europe. AD 410) entailing the battle of good virtues and evil vices. The seven heavenly virtues were derived from the Psychomachia (“Contest of the Soul”), an epic poem written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. There is another list of the seven virtues to oppose the seven deadly sins. Seven Virtues by Francesco Pesellino and workshop, c. It was not until the New Testament began to be more extensively studied that these first virtues are widely referred to as the four cardinal virtues while the latter three are referred to as the three theological virtues, as mentioned by Stalker in his book The Seven Cardinal Virtue. These four initial virtues – temperance, wisdom, justice, and courage – were seen as the main attributes for a person to have. However, when they first came into being, there were not seven of them as we know them now, but four.
The seven virtues were first penned by the Greek philosophers, Aristotle and Plato.
The virtues were chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. This poem proposed seven virtues to directly counteract the seven deadly sins. These were adopted by the Church Fathers as the seven virtues.Ī list that was developed later, sometimes called the seven heavenly virtues, was proposed by a Christian governor named Aurelius Prudentius who died around 410 AD, in his poem “Psychomachia” or “Battle/Contest of the Soul”. The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines virtue as “a habitual and firm disposition to do the good.” Traditionally, the seven Christian virtues, heavenly virtues (or The Seven Catholic Virtues) combine the four classical cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and courage (or fortitude) with the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
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