medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 01/10/2010 1:25 PM, John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Today (1. October) is the feast day of:
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> 1) Piatus (?). P. (Piat, Piaton, Platon, etc.) is a local saint of Hainaut and Flanders whose relics St. Eligius, bishop of Noyon from 641 to 659/60, found at today's Seclin in the French département du Nord and whom he there enshrined. By the tenth century P. had a legendary Passio (BHL 6845; several later versions) that makes him a native of the duchy/principality of Benevento (which, if true, would also make him a saint of the Regno) who is ordained priest at Rome by St. Dionysius of Paris, who accompanies Denis and St. Quintinus of Vermand to Gaul, who evangelizes in the territory of Tournai, is arrested in the same persecution that leads to the martyrdoms of Sts. Dionysius, Quintinus, Lucian, Crispin, and Crispinian, refuses to apostasize, is tortured, and finally is executed on this day by decapitation (later versions make him a cephalophore). Prior to his death, L. had converted thirty thousand, not counting women and little children.
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> P.'s fourteenth-century chapel at Chartres:
> http://tinyurl.com/48nsh9
> Many views, including his window in the chapel and sculpted repesentations of him on the cathedral:
> http://tinyurl.com/3ltc8g
In fact, the incorrupt body of St Piat possessed by Chartres Cathedral
until the Revolution appears to have been a Breton saint that came to
the cathedral with the relics of several other Breton saints (Tugdual,
Turiaf) during the Norman invasions. As the Seclin St Piat grew in
stature, it would appear that a case of "relic envy" set in, and
gradually, the owners of the Chartres relics came to believe that they
possessed the more famous St Piat, rather than Seclin. By the time the
13th-century cathedral ordinary was created, the feast day of their St
Piat was thus being celebrated on 1 Oct.
Cheers,
Jim
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