medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Sunday, June 19, 2005, at 5:12 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> Phyllis Jestice wrote:
> >
> > Sorry. Delaney's *Dictionary of Saints* was backwards on
> Romuald's feast
> > day. In the later Middle Ages, Romuald was celebrated on 7.
> February, the
> > anniversary of his translatio; but his main feast day is now 19.
> June, his
> > *dies natalis*.
>
> Probably only since 1969 - although he was in the Tridentine Roman
> Martyrology for this day. It suggests, somewhat remarkably, that
> no-one
> knew the date of his death!
R.'s date of death is given in Peter Damian's _Vita beati Romualdi_,
cap. 72, as ".IIIX. kalendarum Iuliarum" (ed. Tabacco, pp. 115-16).
Unless this manner of expressing "thirteenth" (".IIIX." = "XIII.") gave
pause, there should have been no difficulty in understanding R.'s _dies
natalis_ as 19. June.
According to Giovanni Tabacco in his aforementioned ed. of the _Vita
beati Romualdi_ (Roma: Istituto storico italiano per il Medio Evo,
1957; Fonti per la storia d'Italia, no. 97), p. 116, n. 1, R.'s feast
fell on 19. June until 1595, when Clement VIII made it universal for
Roman Catholics and reassigned it to 7. February, the anniversary of
the translation of R.'s remains to the Camaldolese church of S. Biagio
[now SS. Biagio e Romualdo] at Fabriano in 1481. Tabacco's
article, "Romualdo, santo", in the _Bibliotheca Sanctorum_, vol. 11
(1968), cols. 365-75, says the same thing at col. 375; so also Pere L.
A. Lassus, tr., Saint Pierre Damien et Saint Bruno de Querfurt, _Textes
primitifs camaldules_ (Namur: Eds. du Soleil Levant, 1962), p. 130, n.
2.
Perhaps it was Delaney who was confused.
Whereas the article in the _Bibliotheca Sanctorum_ says nothing about a
reversion to 19. June, the same encyclopedia's _Indici_ of 1970 have R.
listed under that date, thus confirming John's supposition that this
change took place in 1969.
Best,
John Dillon
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