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"Après avoir été disciple de saint Samson, Ethbin se retira au monastère de
Taurac et y fut diacre du moine Guénolé, lequel desservait une église
voisinne. Vers la fin de sa vie, il passa en Irlande où il y meurt un 19
octobre, âgé de 83 ans."
Ediunet est aussi l'autre nom de saint Ethbin. Cette forme se rencontre dans
les anciennes litanies bretonnes (Missel de Saint-Vougay, XIème s. par ex.)
et dans une pseudo-charte du Cartulaire de Landevennec (milieu XIème s.)
Mais peut-être y a t-il là à l'origine deux personnages distincts ?
Reliques à l'abbaye Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé (Cartulaire, p. 46)
Biblio : Vita Idiuneti alias dicti Ethbini, édition A. De La Borderie, dans
Cartulaire de Landevennec, 1888, pp. 137-141.; Latouche, Mélanges d'Histoire
de Cornouaille, pp. 41-46; Donatien de Bruyne, La vie de saint Idunet, dans
Bulletin de la Société Archéologique du Finistère, 39, 1912.Duine, Memento,
n° 66.
BHL 2621.
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 19. October
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Today (19. October) is the feast day of:
>
> Ptolomaeus and Lucius (d. c. 150) We still have Justin's early acta of
> these saints, an important source for early Christianity. Ptolomaeus
> converted a married woman to Christianity, after which she was no longer
> willing to put up with her husband's perverted sexual practices and
> demanded a divorce. Her husband filed a complaint against both his wife
> and Ptolomaeus as Christians. Pt. avowed his Christianity and after a
long
> time in prison to think the matter over was executed. Lucius, a Christian
> bystander, protested this execution for no crime except the mere fact of
> his Christianity, according to Justin with the interesting statement:
"Your
> sentence. . . does not befit the Emperor [Antoninus] Pius nor his
> philosopher son [Marcus Aurelius] nor the holy senate"
(Farmer)---whereupon
> he too was executed.
>
> Altinus of Orleans (1st or 4th cent.) Altinus established the churches of
> Orleans and Chartres. Legend claimed that he was a first-century
> contemporary of Jesus; more likely he was a fourth-century martyr.
>
> Ethbin (6th cent.) Ethbin was a noble, born in Britain. His mother
turned
> him over to St. Samson for education. Later Ethbin became a monk in
> Brittany, then after his monastery was destroyed went to Ireland and lived
> for twenty years as a hermit. His cult was in Brittany, not Ireland.
>
> Aquilinus of Evreux (d. 695) Aquilinus served the Merovingian Clovis II
> for forty years, after which he and his wife retired to Evreux to devote
> themselves to good works. When his piety became known, A. was made bishop
> of the city, but continued to live as a hermit while doing the work of his
> office.
>
> Frideswide (d. 727) Frideswide is the patron of Oxford. She was a
> daughter of a sub-king named Dida, who founded several monasteries---he
put
> his daughter in charge of the double monastery at Oxford. Later legend is
> much more exciting: Aethelbald of Mercia planned to seduce Frideswide, but
> she escaped and took refuge in Oxford---Aethelbald was struck blind, but
> cured by her intercession.
>
> John of Rila (d. 946) John was one of the earliest native monks of
> Bulgaria. He lived for sixty years in the mountains south of Sofia, where
> he founded the great monastery of Rila (which by the way survived until
> 1947, when the Communist government of Bulgaria converted it to a
> meteorological station).
>
> Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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