medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
> On Saturday, August 27, 2005, at 1:17 pm, John Briggs wrote:
>> Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>>>
>>> Today (27. August) is the feast day of:
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> In the Sarum calendar, a Feast without rulers with double Invitatory.
>
> This would be the saint now generally known as Rufus of Capua, after
> his entry for today in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology: _in Capua
> natale Rufi_ (some witnesses have _in Campania_ instead). Early
> liturgical sources from the Gelasian Sacramentary onward have him on
> this date; as is their wont, he appears in these and in many calendars
> without geographic specification, as he also did in the mosaics of the
> cupola of the late 5th- / early 6th-century church of St. Priscus at
> (Old) Capua. The more narratively inclined martyrologies, starting
> with Ado and Usuard (but not, it would seem, including the latest
> version of the Roman Martyrology), identify him with the patrician
> Rufus whose daughter is said by Agnellus of Ravenna to have been cured
> by St. Apollinaris of that city; early in this tradition, which dates
> him to the Neronian persecution, R. is again said to have suffered
> martyrdom at Capua.
>
> An alternative tradition, not known to the first (before the end of
> the twelfth century) of the Capuan calendars published by Michele
> Monaco in his _Sanctuarium Capuanum_ of 1630 but present in all his
> subsequent ones and reflected as well in the thirteenth-century
> legendary of Bovino, makes R. a bishop of Capua who suffered under
> Diocletian and/or Maximian and gives him a companion in martyrdom,
> Carponius (sometimes referred to as Carpophorus). One version of
> their acta (BHL 7378) may be read in the _Acta Sanctorum_. In the
> early modern period this pair, now seemingly absent from the Roman
> Martyrology, was distinguished from the earlier R. and given a
> separate feast on 30. August.
Well, no, the 1749 Roman Martyrology - which I presume to be the one current
until very recently - has this separate pair also on 27 August.
John Briggs
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