Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:23:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: Holy Innocents
From: John Shinners <[log in to unmask]>
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The monk Aubrey of Trois-Fontaines, one of the more unreliable
reporters of the Childrens' Crusade, claims that the bodies of some of the
children supposedly killed in a shipwreck at the "island of St.
Peter-at-the-Rock, which is called Recluse" were buried at a church of the
"New Innocents" built on the island by order of Gregory IX, and that their
uncorrupted bodies were shown to pilgrims there.
John Shinners
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I agree with you about Alberic (Aubrey) of Trois-Fontaines: he is one of the
most successful mythmakers of the children's crusade. Much of what he says is
highly implausible (see Zacour in Setton, *History of the Crusades*, Vol. 2)
but there is no confirmation of his story about the memorial church in Gregory
IX's *Registers*.
(Dr.) Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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