medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, September 25, 2009, at 1:40 am, I wrote:
> 3) Solemnius (d. late 5th or very early 6th cent.). We first hear of
> S. (also Sollemnis, Solennis, etc.; in French, Solenne, Solein, etc.)
> from St. Gregory of Tours, who narrates (_In gloria confessorum_, 21)
> his inventio at a monastery at today's Luynes (Indre-et-Loire)
> followed by healing miracles at his tomb.
For 'Solemnius' (a more recent form surviving in potted saint's lives) read either 'Sollemnis' (Gregory's name form for S., also that of S.'s early Chartrian Vita) or 'Solemnis' (the spelliog used by the RM in its revision of 2001).
There is a point of view, espoused by Duchesne and followed by others, that regards the S. of Chartres as originally distinct from Gregory's S. That's quite possible, though there's not enough evidence about early constructions of a saint of this name to exclude an original identity. But from the time of the Translation account (BHL 7820; dated by Levison to the mid-ninth century) onward the two figures have been conjoined.
> ... Blois' collégiale Saint-Solenne...
> received modifications in the twelfth and fifteenth
> centuries and was rebuilt in 1455 and in 1678; in 1697, with the
> erection of the diocese of Blois, it changed its titulature along with
> its rank and became the cathédrale Saint-Louis.
Er, was rebuilt in 1544 and in 1678.
Best again,
JD
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