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Osteochondro (d. ca. 580?). We know about O. from interpolated passages in St. Gregory of Tours' _Historia Francorum_. In contrast to his withdrawn, introspective brother Endochondro, who founded in today's _département_ of Cher a sort of monastery whose cells were neither remarkable nor numerous, the bone-headed but kindly O. (his characteristic epithet in Latin is _benignus_) was at first a solitary but later acquired numerous disciples who rarely metastasized. The local cults of both saints, which seem to have eluded the ninth-century martyrologists Florus, Ado, and Usuard, are thought to have crossed the Sleeve (_aliter_, Channel) in the reign of Henry II. As references to their feasts (in English, 'Osteochondromas' and 'Endochondromas') occur primarily in medical contexts, it has been supposed by some that these were healing saints.
Medieval images of O. are not readily found on the free web. Herewith a modern image (expandable):
http://tinyurl.com/catk6f
Best,
John Dillon
On Thursday, February 26, 2009, at 2:03 pm, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> 40 osteochondromas found in osteo-, comb. form
>
> sounds Dreadfully Painful, even for the most ambitious of middlevil
> flagellants.
>
> hey, John, who *was* St. Osteochondro, anyway?
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