medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (13. April) is the feast day of:
Albertinus (d. 550) Albinus became a monk and abbot at Tincillac
near Angers, and bishop of Angers in c. 529. He was an important
figure at the third council of Orleans (538). The monastery of
St-Aubin in Angers was dedicated to him, and he also has a shrine at
St-Aubin de Moeslain.
Hermenegild the Goth (d. 586) Demoted to local cult status in 1969,
Hermenegild has an interesting life and a martyrdom attested by no
less a figure than Gregory the Great. H. was a son of the Visigothic
king Leovigild in Spain. He married a christian Frankish princess
and converted from Arianism. After this H. rebelled against his
father, but was captured and executed (Gregory says as a result of
his conversion).
Martin I (d. 655) Martin was a native of Todi, elected pope in 649.
He took a brave stand against the imperially-sponsored doctrine of
monothelitism---and Emperor Constans II responded by having him
arrested. Martin was sent to the island of Naxos in 653. The next
year he was tried and condemned to death, which was commuted to exile
in the Crimea---where he was starved to death.
Ida of Boulogne (d. 1113) Ida was a noblewoman from Bouillon
(Belgium), wife of the count of Boulogne and mother of Godfrey de
Bouillon and King Baldwin of Jerusalem. She was extremely generous
to monasteries.
Caradoc (d. 1124) Caradox was a court harpist in South Wales before
he became a monk at Llandaff. From there C. went on to become a
hermit, first on Barry Island (where he was harassed by pirates) and
then near Haroldston (Pembrokeshire).
Margaret of Citta-di-Castello (blessed) (d. 1320) Margaret has the
dubious distinction of being the earliest person formally beatified
(in 1609) who has not gone on to full-scale canonization. This seems
in keeping with her life story. M. was born to a noble family from
the area of Forli, Italy. She was blind and deformed at birth, and
her parents kept her locked up until she was twenty. Then they took
her to a shrine at Citta-di-Castello hoping for a cure---and when no
miracle was forthcoming they abandoned her there. Several families
of the area looked after her (she seems to have been a cheap
baby-sitter) and she became a Dominican tertiary before dying at the
age of 33.
--
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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History Department
University of Southern Mississippi
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