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Today (9. November) is also the feast day of:
Agrippinus of Naples (?4th cent.). An early bishop of uncertain date, A. first comes to our attention in the ninth century, first in the marble calendar of Naples
(see: http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/naples.html)
, where he is listed as the person celebrated on 9 November, and then in John the Deacon's portion of the _Gesta episcoporum Neapolitanorum_, where he is sixth in the catalogue of the city's bishops. From the latter source we also learn that he was buried next to St. Januarius in today's catacombs, that bishop John IV (842-49) translated him to the then cathedral of Naples, the "Stephania," and that he was famous for his miracles.
A collection of the latter, the _Miracula s. Agrippini_, survives and was edited by Hippolyte Delehaye in the _Acta Sanctorum_, Novembris tomus IV (1925), pp. 118-28 (text on pp. 122-28). Written in the form of a sermon and clearly intended for reading on A.'s feast day, this has been analyzed as the work of three succeeding authors over the course of the ninth and tenth centuries. The third and longest part (sections 10-12; BHL 176, 175, 177) is a prosimetrum (i.e., a mixture of prose and verse) attributed to the talented Neapolitan hagiographer, Peter the Subdeacon (ca. 919-ca. 970); recounting three miracles, two personal and one civic, it repays reading from a variety of perspectives.
Best,
John Dillon
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