medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, at 11:10 pm, I wrote:
> 1) Agatha, virgin martyr (d. 250 or 251, supposedly)...
> As noted above, one of A.'s breasts ... was
> left in today's Gallipoli (LE) in Apulia. For the miracle that it
> operated there, causing it to be given to that city, see abbot-bishop
> Maurice's account of A.'s translation to Catania from Constantinople
> (BHL 139). Since some time in the 1380s, when it was translated from
> Gallipoli at the behest of the the prince of Taranto, Raimondello del
> Balzo Orsini, this relic has been housed in the monastery church of
> St. Catherine of Alexandria at Galatina (LE).
Er, at the behest of the then prince of Taranto...
> 3) Adelaide of Vilich (d. ca. 1015)...
> After
> a campaign begun in earnest in the 1950s and including a letter of
> support from a former mayor of Bonn who was now chancellor of Germany
> (Konrad Adenhauer, of course) her cult was confirmed by Paul VI in
> 1966 at the level of Saint.
Er, Konrad Adenauer.
Best again,
JD
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