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Today (10. November) is also the feast day of:
Baudolinus (d. ca. 740). The name saint of Umberto Eco's Baudolino and the patron of Alessandria (Piedmont), B. is attested to in Paul the Deacon's _History of the Lombards_, VI, 58, as a holy man endowed with powers of prophecy and of second sight and living at Forum (now Villa del Foro) near the site of the future Alessandria. A late medieval office, printed in a Milanese breviary of the Umiliati in 1483, makes him a hermit and, alluding to his many miracles, ascribes to him one in particular: B. sows vegetable seeds that sprout immediately to feed a starving traveler who was happening by. Other miracles were added in a 1548 edition, including what seems to be the well known one of B.'s ridding Forum of wild geese that were devouring the local crops.
Alessandria's agricultural fair takes place during the week leading up to 10 November and ends with the Sagra di San Baudolino, famous for its truffles (if not for its geese).
For further discussion see:
H. D. [i.e., Hippolyte Delehaye], in _Acta Sanctorum_, Novembris tomus IV, pp. 538-41; Gian Michele Fusconi, "Baudolino," _Bibliotheca Sanctorum_, vol. 2, cols. 979-80.
Best,
John Dillon
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