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Dear All
For a possible culting of Maurilius in England, see
http://www.le.ac.uk/users/grj1/morrell.html
with a link to high-quality wall-paintings in Angers, including the
fish-and-key miracle, at http://www.le.ac.uk/users/grj1/mor1.html
Hard copy material in my book 'Saints in the Landscape' (Stroud, Tempus,
2007).
Best wishes
Graham
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St John's College (University of Oxford)
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Centre for English Local History
University of Leicester.
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Subject: Re: [M-R] keys - pilgrim souvenirs, grave goods, other?
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Jim,
There's a keys-and-relics miracle in the later Vitae, etc. of St.
Maurilius of Angers, starting with Arconaldus in the tenth century (BHL
5731-5731d; once falsely attrib. to Venantius Fortunatus) and including
Marbod of Rennes in the early twelfth (BHL 5732; PL 171, cc. 1635-48;
passage is at col. 1644B-D). For modern French-language and
English-language versions, see (in French):
http://carmina-carmina.com/carmina/Mytholosaints/maurille.htm
(and in English):
http://tinyurl.com/cqz4cz
Best,
John Dillon
On Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 7:15 pm, Jim Bugslag wrote:
> Meg,
> I have no doubt you are on to something here. Such seemingly
> innocuous items as keys and
> bells and staffs seem to have had a very powerful resonance in the
> Middle Ages. I haven't
> made a systematic study of this, but as has been pointed out, St Peter
> was from a very early
> time associated with keys, which became his attribute long before
> attributes of saints were at
> all common, and I have come across a couple of stories (legends, in
> hagiographic terms) that
> involve keys. The first, I am sure, will be of particular interest to
> you. It involves the
> foundation legends of Evesham Abbey in the 7th century. St Egwin, who
> was the bishop of
> Worcester at the time, was forced to become a hermit on the banks of
> the Avon, near the
> future site of Evesham. When called to Rome, he determined to travel
> as a penitent, and
> shackled his legs, throwing the key into the Avon before setting out.
> When he arrived in
> Rome, he celebrated Mass in St Peter's Basilica and then settled in to
> a fish dinner. Inside
> the fish he was eating, he found the key he had thrown in the Avon.
> On his return, after
> apparitions of the Virgin Mary, Evesham was founded. I haven't been
> able to determine yet if
> the key was among the relics of Evesham, though. Another story
> involves the church of
> Notre-Dame la Grande in Poitiers and supposedly took place at the
> beginning of the 13th
> century. The mayor of Poitiers had an ambitious clerk who in 1202
> found himself in the city
> of Perigueux, which was then held by the English. He made a deal with
> the English to deliver
> Poitiers to them in exchange, I believe, for a pot of wine (obviously,
> he was a fairly inept
> traitor!). To this effect, he sneaked into the mayor's bedroom one
> night, where he usually
> kept the keys above his bed, but couldn't find them. So, he woke up
> the mayor and trumped
> up an excuse for asking him for the keys. But the mayor couldn't find
> them either. Shortly
> later, the English were discovered outside the gates of the city, and
> the mayor prayed to
> Notre-Dame la Grande to put the city in her care. And when in front
> of the statue, he saw the
> keys in her hand. She was afterwards sometimes known as Notre-Dame
> des Clefs. I doubt
> whether these are isolated stories, and I wonder whether others have
> come across similar
> ones, or of keys that functioned, in recognition of such miracles, as
> relics.
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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