Carolyn Muessig wrote:
>In regard to the source for the listing of the saints most of them come
from Butler's Lives of the Saints. There you can follow up in more detail the
information about vitae and other sources. I also appreciate all the info that
the contributors add to the list. I try to keep a record of
this and include it the following year's posting. So thanks everyone for
embellishing the saints!
So, in a few years I won't be able to give those smellie old Butlers away at
Kalamazoo--everyone will be demanding the new-fangled "Muessigs".
Can I at least have first dibs on the remainders, Carolyn--or are you going to
do something kinkie, like "publishing" on the Web?
>* Clodoald or Cloud (c. 560) - brought up by his grandmother St Clotilda (the
widow of Clovis); by a pun on his name, he is venerated in France as patron of
nail-makers
nail-makers aside, the _villa_ of Saint-Cloud appears in 11th c. charters from
St-Martin-des-Champs (and surely in others unknown to me from earlier--perhaps
much earlier--centuries).
I've always been struck by the beautiful view of the city of Paris from the
Surennes-St-Cloud promentory (almost as good as that from
Montmartre), and preferred to think that the name came from the high elevation
of the place.
another fine, romantic notion smashed by peskie scholarship.
best as possible,
christopher
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