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According to his seemingly later ninth-century Vita antiqua (BHL 4812), Lebuinus (d. ca. 775; also Libuinus, Libinus, Lieven, Liévin) was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine who under the direction of St. Gregory of Utrecht evangelized among the Frisians of today's Gelderland and Overijssel. An initial success was nullified when Saxons overran the area. Lebuinus persevered and died at a small church he had constructed in Saxon territory at a place that became today's Deventer. His cult is attested from the ninth century onward, primarily in the Netherlands but also in Westphalia. An English-language translation of Lebuinus' Vita antiqua, courtesy of Paul Halsall's _Internet Medieval Sourcebook_, is here:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/lebuin.html
Lebuinus' chief monument today is the largely mid-fifteenth- to early sixteenth-century Lebuinuskerk (Grote Kerk; tower from 1612) of Deventer (Overijssel), a replacement for an originally eleventh-century predecessor begun by Utrecht's bishop Bernoldus. An illustrated Dutch-language account is here:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_of_Lebu%C3%AFnuskerk
Further views of the interior:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2049830003/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2049829997/
http://tinyurl.com/ztd67vj
http://tinyurl.com/zmyy8y8
Today (12. November) is Lebuinus' day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. In Deventer his feast is kept on the second Sunday in November.
Some period-pertinent images of St. Lebuinus:
a) as portrayed in relief on mid-eleventh-century silver coinage from Deventer (1046-1054) struck by Utrecht's bishop Bernoldus:
http://tinyurl.com/jhgvz8e
b) as depicted in a fresco of ca. 1500 in the Lebuinuskerk / Grote Kerk in Deventer:
http://www.destentor.nl/polopoly_fs/1.4258064.1394448285!image/image-4258064.jpg
Best,
John Dillon
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