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Dear Jon,
You're very welcome.
A little less than a year ago, when I featured in a Saints of the Day
posting the shadowy St. Severus of Orvieto, I asked myself the same
question about the possible veneration of Thomas Cantilupe either at the
monastery of San Severo or at the cathedral of Orvieto and could find no
traces of there ever having been any. Nor could Cantilupe's
eighteenth-century Bollandist biographer, Constantius Suysken, who was
responsible for C.'s entry in the _Acta Sanctorum_ and could not even
find out where in the abbey church C. had been interred. Suysken's
seventeenth-century Bollandist predecessors Henschen and Papebroch had
found in the Vatican the report of C.'s canonization trial, conducted in
England by papal commissioners in 1307 (the bull of canonization,
though, did not come until 1320). This trial took the testimony of
witnesses in England, including that of two members of C.'s household
who were present at his death and exequies, as well as numerous English
miracle testimonies. Suysken could find no other papal record of the
trial, which probably occasioned little notice in Italy.
On the Sunday following his death C. had a solemn funeral, attended by
several cardinals (one of whom later became pope Nicholas IV), at the
abbey church of San Severo. Afterwards he seems to have been of no
concern to the locals. The presence of the cardinals is explained by
Orvieto's having been pope Martin IV's summer residence and thus that of
the papal court. It was August and C. had been there getting Martin to
vacate his (C.'s) excommunication. When C. was finally canonized the
papacy was at Avignon.
Best again,
John Dillon
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