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Today (12. November) is the feast day of:
1. Cunibert of Köln (Kunibert, Gumpert; d. 663?). C. was a member of the Frankish nobility who served kings Dagobert I and (St.) Sigibert III in various capacities and who under the former was named archbishop of Köln. During Sigibert's minority he was regent of Austrasia. His ecclesiastical activities are not well known, though several unreliable Lives ascribe various foundations to him. One that may well have been his was the extramural monastery at Köln that later bore his name. Some views of the latter's originally thirteenth-century church, the present Basilika Sank Kunibert (restoration completed, 1993), are here:
http://www.willkommeninkoeln.de/11sight/sight09e.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ym7g7r
http://tinyurl.com/u6rop
http://www.thais.it/architettura/romanica/schede/sc_00208_uk.htm
http://www.igougo.com/photos/journal_photos/Image003.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/yk9edn
2. Benedict of Benevento and companions (d. 1003). Today's largely less well known saint of the Regno, B. is well known in Poland and in Polish communities abroad. A cathedral canon of Benevento, he was ordained priest at the age of eighteen. Regretting an act of simony, he traded in this relatively cushy life for a monastic one, first at Naples and later at Montecassino. In 1001 he had joined Romuald of Ravenna's community at Fonte Avellana, whither in response to a request from Otto III he was sent in that year along with John of Classe (J. of Cervia) to evangelize Slavs in Pomerania. Two years later, at Kazimierz (near Gniezno), these two missionaries together with their novices Matthew and Isaac and their servant Christian were murdered by robbers intent on stealing a gift of silver they were carrying to the pope as a present from Boleslaw the Brave. They were promptly declared saints. Their cult was confirmed in 1508.
The Five Brothers, as these martyrs are called, have Vitae (BHL 1147, 1148) by B.'s friend St. Bruno of Querfurt and by Cosmas of Prague (whither their relics were removed from Gniezno in 1039). The former, an exceptionally moving document, was edited in MGH SS 15.2 (1888) by Reinhard Kade. It has a much better critical edition by Hedwigis Karwasinska, _Vita Quinque Fratrum Eremitarum. Epistola Brunonis ad Henricum regem_, Monumenta Poloniae Historica, Series nova, IV, 3 (Warszawa, 1973). Following p. 738 in the edition in the MGH, available online at:
http://www.dmgh.de/
, is a color reproduction of the opening page of Kade's base text for it.
Best,
John Dillon
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