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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Thanks for this. I had misremembered Stilting's preface to BHL 7378 in the AS. The postponement of this pair to the day following the decollation of John the Baptist occurred not in the RM (under Baronio, I had thought) but rather in the archdiocese of Capua under Bellarmino. Stilting discovered this by reading Monaco and confirmed it by comparing copies of older and current Capuan breviaries. Best again, John Dillon On Sunday, August 28, 2005, at 4:47 am, John Briggs wrote: > John Dillon wrote: > > An alternative tradition, not known to the first (before the end of > > the twelfth century) of the Capuan calendars published by Michele > > Monaco in his _Sanctuarium Capuanum_ of 1630 but present in all his > > subsequent ones and reflected as well in the thirteenth-century > > legendary of Bovino, makes R. a bishop of Capua who suffered under > > Diocletian and/or Maximian and gives him a companion in martyrdom, > > Carponius (sometimes referred to as Carpophorus). One version of > > their acta (BHL 7378) may be read in the _Acta Sanctorum_. In the > > early modern period this pair, now seemingly absent from the Roman > > Martyrology, was distinguished from the earlier R. and given a > > separate feast on 30. August. > > Well, no, the 1749 Roman Martyrology - which I presume to be the > one current > until very recently - has this separate pair also on 27 August. ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html