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Subject: [M-R] FEAST - A Saint for the day (March 1): St. Albinus of Angers
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One's information about Albinus of Angers (d. ca. 550; in French, Aubin) comes chiefly from his closely posthumous Vita by St. Venantius Fortunatus (BHL 234). A Breton of noble birth, as a young man he entered a monastery in the vicinity of Angers and at the age of thirty-five became its abbot. Twenty-five years later Albinus was made bishop of Angers (against his will, says Fortunatus). In his ca. twenty years as bishop he took part in at least one council of Orléans (that of 538), actively opposed marriages between persons very closely related to each other, displayed humility despite his high station, and operated many miracles. 1. March is his _dies natalis_.
Albinus was buried in the church of St. Maurilius at Angers; after a few years he was translated into a new church dedicated to him. St. Gregory of Tours relates a healing miracle worked by him at his early tomb (_In gloria confessorum_, 94). By the early seventh century an abbey bearing Albinus' name had arisen next to his church at Angers. Several miracle accounts and numerous church dedications testify to his widespread popularity in the succeeding centuries. In 1070, according to a chronicle entry, Albinus was accorded a translation in his church in Angers. In 1128 he received a new tomb there; a separate account of that translation survives (BHL 237).
Some period-pertinent images of St. Albinus of Angers:
a) Paris, BnF, ms. Nouvelle acquisition latine 1390 is an illuminated, late eleventh-century copy, from his abbey at Angers, of Albinus' Vita. Herewith some views of the illuminations:
http://tinyurl.com/8ydxwzq
http://tinyurl.com/73tr7fa
http://tinyurl.com/7gremue
http://tinyurl.com/6vwjyy8
http://tinyurl.com/7bw64w6
http://tinyurl.com/7rar8yz
http://tinyurl.com/6mllo5v
b) Albinus as portrayed in a perhaps thirteenth-century statue with nineteenth-century polychromy (some think it entirely nineteenth-century) in the treasury of the cathédrale Saint-Maurice in Angers:
http://tinyurl.com/zu7zcwo
c) Albinus (at left, presenting a monk to the BVM and the Christ Child; at right, another saint of Angers, Clarus of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte) as depicted in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (betw. 1301 and 1325) of Bernard of Parma's commentary on the Decretals of Gregory VIII (Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 376, fol. 1r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht1/IRHT_041014-p.jpg
d) Albinus (lancet at far right) as portrayed in an earlier fourteenth-century(?) portion of a fourteenth- and fifteenth-century window in the choir of the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Évreux:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Evreux/w214-det-whole.htm
e) Albinus as depicted (scenes) in the earlier sixteenth-century window devoted to him in the église Saint-Aubin in Guignecourt (Oise):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-a2.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-b2.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-c2.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-d2.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-a1.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-b1.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-c1.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-d1.htm
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-d2.htm
The window as a whole:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Guignecourt/w3-d2.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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