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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Today (31. July) is the feast day of: Tertullinus (d. 257, supposedly). T. is problematically first recorded in the legendary Passio of pope St. Stephen I (BHL 7845-47; sixth- century??), where he is said to have been arrested in the Valerianic persecution two days after Stephen had ordained him priest, to have been subject to various tortures and then decapitated, and to have been laid to rest on this day at his place of execution in the pozzolana crypts at the second milestone of the Via Latina. Seventh-century pilgrim itineraries record a memorial basilica dedicated to him on the same road (precise location not given; the cemetery in this vicinity now known as the Catacomba di Tertullino, though not fully explored, appears to be no earlier than the fourth century). T. enters the martyrologies with Bede (a brief notice, based on the aforementioned Passio). Ado, who has a much fuller extract from the same Passio, lists T. under 4. August, which is where Usuard also put him, as did the RM until its revision of the year 2000. The calendar in a late thirteenth-century missal from Austria now at Yale (Marston Ms. 213) shows the continued influence of Stephen's Passio by listing T. on 31. July, a datum consistent with the online Grotefend's reporting of listings for T. on this date in calendars of Brixen, Freising, Regensburg, and Salzburg. T.'s basilica on the Via Latina was rebuilt by pope St. Adrian I (772- 95). Relics of him are said to have been included among those translated by pope Paschal I (817-24) to Rome's church of Santa Prassede. In 1624 a printed edition of the propers of Le Puy-en-Velay in Auvergne asserted that T.'s relics were at the high altar of its cathedral of Notre Dame; the early Bollandists were unable to locate anything to substantiate this claim. Long before this, though, the monastery of Schlehdorf in Oberbayern claimed to have them. ********************************************************************** 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