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Did you miss the part about the translation of her (naturally very efficacious) relics to Wuppertal, whence her cult radiated to Leverkusen?
--JD
On Friday, December 3, 2010, at 12:02 pm, christopher crockett wrote:
> i didn't realize that the Regno extended that far north.
>
> perhaps in Asprina's day it wasn't as far away....
>
> c
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> Received: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:59:59 PM EST
> From: Karl Brunner <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 2. December
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >
> > Sorry, Bayer is in Leverkusen, and Leverkusen is in Nordrhein-Westfalen,
> near Köln/Cologne.
> > Karl
> >
> >
> > Am 03.12.2010 um 18:46 schrieb George Brown:
> >
> > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> > > Christopher,
> > >
> > > Isn't "Bayer" just s. German for "Bavarian"? "Bayer" may also be
> a
> clipped form of "Bayern" = "Bavaria."
> > >
> > > GHB
> > > On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:29 AM, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> > >
> > >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> > >>
> > >> i had always just assumed that the center of Ste. Asprina's
> (thanks for
> the
> > >> orthographic correction, btw) cult was at Bayer --at least until
> the
> original
> > >> patent ran out.
> > >>
> > >> but, i have never been able to actually locate "Bayer" on a map.
> > >>
> > >> apparently it is in some area of the Regno so remote that even
> contemporary
> > >> map makers (much less Hagiographers) have yet to reach it.
> > >>
> > >> c
> > >>
> > >> ------ Original Message ------
> > >> Received: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:25:40 AM EST
> > >> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> To: [log in to unmask]
> > >> Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 2. December
> > >>
> > >>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> > >>>
> > >>> A deplorable oversight and one for which I at least must beg the
> list's
> > >> pardon. A sister of Naples' St. Aspren (3. August), she was his
> first
> convert
> > >> after he had been baptized by St. Peter. At an undetermined time
> her
> relics
> > >> were translated to what is now Wuppertal in today's Nordrhein-Westfalen,
> > >> whence her cult radiated to Leverkusen and to other cities of the
> Rheinland,
> > >> with an important cult center later established in Frankfurt am
> Main.
> A.'s
> > >> relics were dispersed during the years immediately following the
> cessation of
> > >> hostilities in World War II. Her subsequent worldwide veneration
> is
> beyond
> > >> the remit of this august list.
> > >>>
> > >>> Best,
> > >>> John Dillon
> > >>>
> > >>> On Friday, December 3, 2010, at 8:53 am, christopher crockett wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> the much later (19th
> > >>>> c.)
> > >>>> Ste. Aspirina, and who, strangely enough, has never made an appearance
>
> > >>>> among
> > >>>> the list's daily hagiographic dose in all the years that i have
> been
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