medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, June 21, 2007, at 11:57 pm, I wrote:
> Today (21. June) is the feast day of:
> 2) Alban of Mainz (d. ca. 405, supposedly). A saint of this name has
> been venerated at Mainz and vicinity since at least 758. ...
> Local tradition of long standing makes A. a cephalophore.
As seen, for example, in the early sixteenth-century statue of A. of Mainz now in Göttingen's City Museum and shown here in five views:
http://www.museum.goettingen.de/Austell/Kirche/albanus.htm
This had been not in the Albanikirche but rather in the Paulinerkirche at Göttingen, on which latter see the illustrated, English-language page here:
http://www.paulinerkirche-goettingen.de/e_hist.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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