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Claude (also Claude of the Jura, Claude of Besançon) is the traditional twelfth abbot of the monastery of Condat (for most of the Middle Ages called Saint-Oyend; today's Saint-Claude in Franche-Comté).  One of that institution's medieval lists of abbots styles calls him "archbishop and abbot"; a dubious tradition, expressed in his perhaps thirteenth-century Vitae (BHL 1840, etc.), makes him archbishop of Besançon.  Charter evidence shows Claude to have been alive in 699.  At some time between 1160 and 1213 there was a formal Inventio of his reportedly intact remains.  Said to be wonder-working, these brought many pilgrims to Saint-Claude before their destruction by fire or disappearance in 1794.

The originally fifteenth-century former abbey church of Saint-Oyend is now the the cathedral of Saint-Pierre, Saint-Paul et Saint-André at Saint-Claude.  Though its facade is early modern, much of it is still very clearly medieval.  Some views, starting with the exterior:
http://www.lataniere39.com/rene/cathedrale_st-pierre/0001.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2e9cuna
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude06.jpg
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude08.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/266dv73
Views of the interior:
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude09.jpg
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude11.jpg
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude13.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/2bmk6at

Relic fragments of Claude said to have survived the burning are displayed in a small transparent reliquary placed before his modern châsse containing a wax effigy of the saint at the end of the cathedral's south aisle:
http://www.lataniere39.com/rene/cathedrale_st-pierre/0038.JPG

6. June is Claude's feast day in the diocese of Saint-Claude and his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.


Some period-pertinent images of St. Claude of Condat:

a) as portrayed in relief on his late medieval tomb plaque in the cathedral in Saint-Claude:
http://www.racinescomtoises.net/IMG/jpg/St-Claude25.jpg

b) as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century book of hours (ca. 1435-1440; Le Mans, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 688, fol. 22v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht5/IRHT_082875-p.jpg

c) as depicted in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Louis de Savoie (betw. 1445-1450 and 1460; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 9473, fol. 166v):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b105326055/f344.item.r=.zoom

d) as depicted in a late fifteenth-century book of hours (ca. 1488; Use of Rome; Avignon, Bibliothèque-Médiathèque Municipale Ceccano, ms. 2595, fol. 107v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht3/IRHT_057498-p.jpg

e) as depicted (resuscitating a child) in a late fifteenth-century book of hours for the Use of Tours (ca. 1490; Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, ms. 507, fol. 167r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht16/IRHT_05776-p.jpg

f) as depicted in a late fifteenth-century breviary for the Use of Besançon (before 1498; Besançon, Bibliothèques municipales, ms. 69, p. 615):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht5/IRHT_083505-p.jpg

g) as depicted in a light of the late fifteenth-century Prodigal Son Window (bay 232; 1499) in the cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul in Troyes:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Troyes%20cathedral/w232-tl7.htm

h) as depicted in an early sixteenth-century stained glass roundel in the Musée du vitrail in the Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte in Troyes:
http://tinyurl.com/z9vjuqu

i) as depicted in an early sixteenth-century book of hours (ca. 1510; Use of Rome; Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2104, fol. 170r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_051218-p.jpg

j) as depicted (resuscitating two people laid out on the ground) in the early sixteenth-century Hours of Philibert de Viry (after 1511; Geneva, Bibliothèque de Genève, Ms. lat. 367, fol. 183r):
http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bge/lat0367/183r/0/Sequence-1722

k) as depicted in a stained glass roundel in an earlier sixteenth-century window (bay 9; ca. 1520) in the église Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens in Brienne-la-Vieille (Aube):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Brienne-la-Vieille/w9-c1.htm

l) as depicted (scenes) by Nicolas and Jean le Prince in the Saint Claude Window (bay 9; 1527) in the église Saint-Étienne in Beauvais:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Beauvais-st-etienne/w9.htm

Best,
John Dillon
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