> > Does anyone know of other 'saints of colour' in pre-modern Europe?
> >
> Of course, there was one of the wise men--Melchior?
>
> Jackie de Weever gave a paper at the hagiography society on the
> "blackening" of St. Maurice over several centuries
The third wise man also underwent "progressive blackening" in the
Western tradition; there are hints in Bede but no explicit statement
in literature until 14thC. See:
Kaplan, Paul H.D., The rise of the black Magus in Western art, Studies
in the Fine Arts: Iconography, 9 (Ann Arbor, 1985).
Frank Schaer
(Medieval Studies, CEU)
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