medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, August 8, 2008, at 11:06 am, Diana Wright wrote:
> > 1) Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus (?)...
> > To distinguish him from one or more of the numerous other saints of
> > this name, C. is also known as Cyriac of Rome.
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> And for his most famous namesake: http://nauplion.net/CYRIACO.html
>
> DW
Perhaps. But Cyriac of Ancona will have thought his namesake to have been the Cyriac of his own city, whose late medieval legend seems calqued on that of the seemingly quite unhistorical Cyriac of Jerusalem (d. later 4th cent., supposedly) and whose possible original identity with C. of Rome is only a modern guess. See no. 3 at:
http://tinyurl.com/55rqta
Best,
John Dillon
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