It's Pope Caius, whose day is April 22, Pope, Saint, Martyr, Donald Atwater
saying nothing else is known about him. We don't have Butler's Lives of the
Saints. This information comes courtesy of Mark Roberts, Librarian, Sir
Harold Acton Library, British Institute, Florence, Italy. Galluzzo is just
outside Florence, where Nicholas Acciaiuoli built Certosa. The Augustinian
convent of San Gaggio/Ghaio/Caius is now a primary school.
At 12.11 14/05/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Dear collegues,
>
>I have a query on the name and identity of a particular saint. In a mid
>fifteenth century convent account book from the Augustinian convent of Santa
>Caterina di San Gaggio al Galluzzo (in/near? Florence) the nuns dedicate
>their accounts to a large number of saints. It was common accounting
>practice at the time to begin account books with an invocation to God or a
>particular saint but these nuns seem to have taken things to extremes. The
>dedication runs as follows:
>
>"Al nome sia dall' altissimo Dio, padre, figliuolo e spirito sancto et della
>gloriosa madre di Christo, vergine Maria, et de santissimi apostoli, Piero e
>Paulo, et del grorioso arcangelo Raphaello, et del beato e glorioso
>confessare e doctore, Sancto Agostino, et del beato Sancto Ghaio, papa e
>martire di Cristo, et del beato e grorioso Sancto Antonio, heremita, et
>della beata et glorioso madonna Sancta Katherina, vergine e martire, et
>della beata Sancta Agnesa, et della beata Sancta Cecilia, carrissime spose e
>viatoriossissime martire di Yhesu Cristo e di tutti e [sic.] sancti e sancte
>di vita eterna. Amen."
>
>They certainly weren't taking any chances!:-)
>
>My query is this. I have taken the San Ghaio mentioned to be Saint Gaius a
>4th? century pope. However I can find no record of him being a martyr. I
>also take San Ghaio to be the San Gaggio after whom the convent is named. Am
>I right in these assumptions? Does anyone know of any other saint who might
>fit the bill, so to speak?
>
>Please excuse my ignorance in these matters and thanks in advance for any help.
>
>Justine.
>
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>Justine Heazlewood
>Mail: C/- History Department, Monash University,
> Clayton VIC 3168 Australia
>Voice: +61 3 9531 6520
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>
>
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via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY,
http://members.aol.com/juliansite/Juliansite.htm
Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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