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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture 2) Liborius (d. 4th cent.?). L. (in French, Liboire) is said to have been an early bishop of Le Mans. His relics were translated to Paderborn (in then recently converted Saxony) in the reign of Louis the Pious when both towns had Frankish bishops. His Vitae, which come from both dioceses, are late and unreliable. That from Paderborn (BHL 4912, 4913) is by far the fuller, reflecting L.'s much greater prominence in his adoptive home, where he is a patron saint of both the city and the diocese and where his principal feast occurs on 23. July. Paderborn's largely thirteenth-century cathedral of Sts. Mary, Kilian, and Liborius was badly damaged in World War II. The fabric one sees now incorporates much restoration work. A brief online tour of the exterior (to continue, click towards the lower left of each view) is here: http://www.diekneite-paderborn.de/Domrundgang/Domseite.html The 12th-century west tower and the thirteenth-century Paradise: http://tinyurl.com/hk2mo The Paradise has a notable portal (dated to before 1240): http://static.flickr.com/55/135275173_4f35edfb4a.jpg?v=0 http://www.diekneite-paderborn.de/Domrundgang/Paradies1.html Flanking the BVM are representations of Kilian and of L.: http://www.diekneite-paderborn.de/Domrundgang/Paradies6.html One the diocese's treasures is the early twelfth-century portable altar of Sts. Kilian and Liborius: http://www.nrw-stiftung.de/projekte/galerie.php?id=245&bnr=1 http://www.nrw-stiftung.de/projekte/galerie.php?id=245&bnr=2 (K. at left, L. at right) The widely accepted ascription of this and another portable altar in Paderborn to the well attested Roger of Helmarshausen has been challenged relatively recently. See: http://tinyurl.com/dgf2ou http://tinyurl.com/d7v8y8 For L.'s various Vitae and Translationes, see Volker de Vry, _Liborius, Brückenbauer Europas. Die mittelalterlichen Viten und Translationsberichte. Mit einem Anhang der Manuscripta Liboriana_ (Paderborn: F. Schöningh, 1997). The only thing I knew about Paderborn was that it has a carving of three hares running in a circle depicted so there are only three ears between them but each hare seems to have a proper pair. I have been told a) That this image is of Chinese origin & b) That it is a representation of the Holy Trinity. Does anyone know if this carving (which I did not spot in any of the above whistlestop tour) id mediaeval ? Brenda. ********************************************************************** 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