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Dear Martin,
thanks a lot for your tip and the interesting facts! I tried in the last days to get a kind of
overview about the known manuscripts of Radegundes Vita (in the Edition and in
Internet-Catalogues like the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Manuscripta). It seems,
that a lot of manuscripts were written in the 12th and 13th century. A maior part of the
manuscripts can be located in South Germany, so it could be possible that a Vita was
known to Elisabeth of Thuringia. But it needs really some more work to evaluate the
reception of the Vita Radegundis.
By the way I found an interesting detail, another Radegundis, worshiped in the area of
Augsburg in Germany:
Zu Ehren der Di”zesanheiligen
Radegundis, einer Magd, die 1290 in Wellenburg auf einem Weg im Dienste der
N„chstenliebe von W”lfen angefallen wurde, wird heute noch seit 1810
allj„hrlich am 4. Sonntag nach Pfingsten im neuklassizistischen
Kirchenbau von Waldberg (bei Bobingen) ein feierliches Radegundisfest mit
Prozession und
traditionellem Jahrmarkt abgehalten.
The patrocinium of Radegundins seems to be very rar in Germany.
Thanks for all suggestions,
Katrinette
> George Beech has written about the evidence of veneration of St
>Radegunde in England after her cult was introduced (perhaps re-introduced)
>at Glastonbury around 970. In his 'England and Aquitaine in the Century
>before the Norman Conquest,' Anglo-Saxon England 19 (1990), p. 91-22, he
>connects the rise of her cult with visits by pilgrims from Aquitaine to
>the shrine of St Ecgwine at Evesham in the latter half of the eleventh
>century and ventures that:
>
> 'Aquitaine pilgrims may also have brought with them relics of St
>Radegund such as those which New Minster in Winchester owned by the later
>eleventh century and which testify further to the advance of her cult in
>southern England at the time....
>'A further indication of English interest in the cult of St Radegund was
>the copying and circulating of her vitae. ...English archives hold at
>least three of these, one each in the ninth, eleventh and twelfth
>centuries, but the fact that none is known to have been in England prior
>to 1100 shows that this was probably a later development.'
>
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