medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Aderald (d. 1004) A great relic collector, Aderald, archdeacon of Troyes,
led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and then founded the monastery of Holy
Sepulcher at Samblieres to house all the relics he had collected.
sounded like a good canditate for an architectural "replica" of the Holy
Sepulchre --either full size or as some sort of shrine-- so i tried to find
out a bit more about the place.
however, a google search on "Samblieres" yields zit, as does a look in
Joanne's massive Dictionnaire Geographique and the Dictionnnaire des
Postes...
and the Vita in the AASS doesn't say where, exactly, Aderald's foundation was
(...cœnobium construxit monachorum, quod propriis prædiis ditatum
reliquisque bonis donatum sanctis pignoribus reliquiarum exornavit...).
however, the Commentarius to the vita first says,
Locum delegit in villa seu viculo tribus circiter leucis a Tricassina civitate
in septemtrionem dissito, quem irrigat Melda fluvius, e vicino Sequana, cui et
aquas suas deinde reddit, derivatus. Is viculus tum Sambleriæ dicebatur...
but the _Melda_ is probably the short Meldancon, which flows into the Aube
Northeast of Troyes, and there is no place in that area with a name that looks
like it could be a tranformation of "Samblieres".
further in the Commentary we are told --according to early modern sources--
the place became a priory of Cluny, perhaps under the immediate authority of
La Charité.
and there is the account of the erection of a memorial to St. Aderald in 1802,
over his tomb in the crypt, when the Bishop of Troyes said, "visitavimus arcam
S. Aderaldi presbyteri, canonici et archidiaconi ecclesiæ Trecensis,
fundatoris prioratus S. Sepulcri in Villacerf..."
Villacerf is a commune on the right bank of the Seine, 12km or so North West
of Troyes.
Joanne notes that there is a 12th c. church and that the place was previously
called Saint-Sepulchre and, before that, Samblieres.
i don't suppose anyone here knows of this place?
my original thought was that important relics from the Holy Sepulchre, housed
in some kind of a "replica" setting *might* have had something to do with the
extreme popularity of the motif of the "Mise en Tombeau", sculptural tableaux
of which are found in so many churches in the region, most notably Chaource
http://perso.club-internet.fr/herve_ga/t/aube/chaource04.JPG
http://perso.club-internet.fr/herve_ga/t/aube/chaource07.JPG
but, that idea looks like it's something of a mare's nest.
best from here,
christopher
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