medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tuesday, April 6, 2010, at 5:44 pm, I wrote:
> 2) Prudentius of Troyes (d. 681). We know about the theologian and
> bishop P. from his own surviving writings, from two Vitae (BHL 6981b
> and 6981), from references to him by contemporaries, and from various
> documentary appearances. A native of northern Spain, he was chaplain
> to Louis the Pious before being elevated to the see of Troyes in 844.
> In 849/850 his criticisms of Gottschalk of Orbais on predestination
> were too mild to please Hincmar of Reims and St. Rabanus Maurus. In
> the developing controversy he wrote a point-by-point response to
> Johannes Scotus Eriugena's _De praedestinatione_ of 851 and is
> reported to have subscribed the anti-Gottschalkian articles of the
> synod of Quierzy in 853.
As Judith Rosenberg has kindly pointed out, two digits have been switched in P.'s date of death as given at the outset of this notice. Someone active in the early 850s is unlikely to have died in 681.
> Today is P.'s _dies natalis_. Some of his relics stayed at Troyes but
> others wound up at the monastery of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe in
> Poitou, where he is said to be figured in a twelfth-century mural
> painting in the crypt.
In _a_ crypt. There are two: one of St. Martin and the other of the Poitevin martyrs Sts. Sabinus (Savin) and Cyprian. Some views of the church and its frescoes :
http://tinyurl.com/dgovej
http://tinyurl.com/ycbypcp
http://tinyurl.com/yz2ng2p
http://tinyurl.com/ykchhxk
http://www.art-roman.net/stsavin/stsavin.htm
http://www.art-roman.net/stsavin/stsavin2.htm
Best again,
JD
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