medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The best person to contact on this topic would be Steven Sargent at Union
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Best wishes,
John McCulloh
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Sarah Roark wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Hi folks --
>
> I was wondering if anyone could help me with a question for an author
> friend. She needs her protagonists to go to a healing shrine circa 1230
> AD, and I've been trying to help her find a likely candidate. We turned
> up a number of British locales for healing miracles, but she would
> prefer something a bit more easterly. I did finally turn up the
> following shrine:
>
> Blessed Rasso of Grafrath, OSB (AC)
> (also known as Ratho)
> Died 953. Count Rasso of Andechs (Bavaria), a man of great stature, was
> a brave warrior. He led the Bavarians in several campaigns against the
> invading Hungarians. After a midlife pilgrimage to the Holy Land and
> Rome, he founded a Benedictine abbey at Wörth (now Grafrath) in Bavaria
> where he himself became a monk. Saint Rasso gives his name to the
> healing shrine of Grafrath in Bavaria (Attwater2).
>
> Would this be a good candidate? Does anybody know anything about this
> shrine or this saint (why his shrine is a healing one, especially)?
> Alternatively, can anybody think of a better shrine?
>
> Many, many thanks in advance.
>
> --Sarah Roark
>
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