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I should not have written _before_ morning coffee. "Mesmin" is at least principally a form of "Maximinus" and both the M. of Micy and the M. of Trier are Maximini. But this name _could_ be also a diminutive of "Mesme", though I have no idea whether it's so attested.
Best again,
JD
On Thursday, August 21, 2008, at 7:31 am, I wrote:
> On Thursday, August 21, 2008, at 12:48 am. Marjorie Greene wrote:
>
> > "1) Maximus of Chinon (d. 5th cent.). All that is known about the
>
> > historical M. (in
> > French: Maxime, Mesme, Mexme"
> >
> > I know of a church of Saint-Mesmin. Could this be an alternate
> > spelling of this saint's name?
>
> "Mesmin" is certainly a French form of "Maximus" . It's well attested
> in several parts of France for St. Maximus of Trier and in the
> Orléanais for St. Maximus of Micy. But in my necessarily brief
> reading on Maximus of Chinon for yesterday's "saints of the day"
> posting I did not find it attested for that saint. Not wishing to
> invent, and knowing that what could be might not have been shown to
> be, I contented myself with what my sources gave me. Unlike M. of
> Trier and M. of Micy, M. of Chinon did not have a major monastery
> at/near an important ecclesiastical center furthering awareness of him
> either in writing or through the dedications of churches at numerous
> dependencies. The forms of his name in French could well be
> restricted to whatever has been current in the local usage of Chinon
> and vicinity (and in that of the translators of Gregory of Tours).
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