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Today (2. February) is the feast day of:
1) The Presentation in the Temple/Candlemas/The Purification of the Virgin Mary. This feast is first described by the probably late fourth-century pilgrim Egeria in her account of the services at Jerusalem. An English-language translation is here (go to XXVI for the Presentation):
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/durham/egelat.html#ch26
Clicking on the Roman numeral XXVI will bring up the passage in the original Latin.
2) Burkard of Würzburg (d. ca. 754). The English Benedictine B. (also Burkhard, Burchardus) was a coadjutor in Germany of St. Boniface, who in 741 made him the first bishop of Würzburg. Pope St. Zachary confirmed him in this office in 743. B. is said to have promoted the cult of St. Kilian (Würzburg's patron saint) and to have founded under the Marienberg (on the left bank of the Main) a monastery dedicated to St. Andrew into which his remains were translated in the late tenth century and which subsequently was known by his name. The date of this translation (14. October) is B.'s feast day in Würzburg and in other German dioceses. Today, according to the second of his two Vitae (BHL 1483 and 1484; before 855 and mid-twelfth century, respectively), is his _dies natalis_ and his day of commemoration in the new RM.
A German-language translation of B.'s Vita prima is here:
http://tinyurl.com/yujydg
B.'s present church at Würzburg was begun in the early 1030s, was consecrated in 1042, and was radically rebuilt in the fifteenth century. Brief, German-language accounts are at:
http://www.wuerzburg.de/tourismus/sehenswertes/31,1737.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yus5a6
A plan of the church:
http://tinyurl.com/yrpy7j
A view from a painting of 1480:
http://www.st-burkard.de/Geschichte/tafelbild.jpg
Various views of today's church:
http://www.st-burkard.de/fakircheaussen/
http://tinyurl.com/29q263
Here, from a later sixteenth-century illustrated ms. of Lorenz Fries' chronicle of the bishops of Würzburg (f. 6r), is B. taking the episcopal oath on the grave of St. Peter before the pope and two cardinals:
http://tinyurl.com/yqrv8j
And here's B.'s presentation as bishop (f. 8r):
http://tinyurl.com/2y8acf
More here:
http://tinyurl.com/2o9pe6
The home page of this digitization is at:
http://fries.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/login/frame.php
Best,
John Dillon
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