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Usuard is thought to have died in 877. The text that I've been using is (as I would have thought one would expect) the standard critical edition by Jacques Dubois: _Le martyrologe d'Usuard: texte et commentaire_, Subsidia hagiographica, 40 (Bruxelles, 1965). That's a reconstruction of the text of U.'s first recension (completed in 858 or 859) noting additions and other alterations made during the remainder of U.'s working life (this state of the text, called by Dubois a second recension, does not show in D.'s edition any change in date for any of these three saints. Though one should double-check to see what it says at 1. September (a date I don't recall as having been cited in this thread before just now).
Your unsourced statement is odd in mentioning neither Usuard, who was the RM's chief source for _elogia_, nor the later medieval breviary of the Roman curia, whose already moving a number of feasts away from Lent the early RM followed in not a few instances.
Best again,
John Dillon
On Wednesday, December 13, 2006, at 5:48 pm, John Briggs wrote:
>
> John Dillon wrote:
> > For what it's worth, in Usuard Mary Magdalene is on 22. July and
> > Lazarus and Martha are on 17. December.
>
> What date "Usuard"? I have an unsourced statement: "His feast was
> moved to
> this day in the Roman Martyrology from the fifth Sunday in Lent (Milan
> and
> Spain) and Palm Sunday (Gaul)." Lazarus was commemorated in southern
> and
> central France because of confusion with a 5th century bishop of
> Marseilles.
> The 13th-century Fleury calendars apparently have him on 1st
> September, with
> Priscus, Lupus and Egidius.
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