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Thanks Phyllis - your supplementary information confirms that there
apparently never was any cult in France. He was probably "discovered" by
English humanists in the 16th c., and has since passed as saint in Britain
from one book to another.
Never mind if he was "canonized" - a genuine sarcophagus from the
7th-century is much more important. Nothing "purely legendary" about
Agilbert!
Erik
At 2:49 +0200 12/10/02, Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>Farmer (Oxford Dictionary of Saints) says of Agilbert's cult:
>"Agilbert died and was buried at the monastery of Jouarre, where his sister
>was abbess. His fine 7th-century sarcophagus survives there. There is no
>liturgical evidence for an early cult. Agilbert was never formally
>canonized, even after an investigation of his relics in the 18th century.
>But some implicit approval of his cult was given, as is shown by the
>presence of his feast on 1 April in a calendar compiled under King James II
>for English Catholics in 1686."
>Phyllis
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