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> From: "G.R. Jones" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: St Aldate > To: [log in to unmask] > Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 14:50:10 +0100 (BST) > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > > >For similar 'manufactured' saints cf. St Aldate's Church at Oxford ( = Old Gate]; > Gate) > Bill. > > > > > Can anyone direct me to the early spellings of St Aldate's, Oxford? The EPNS > volume gives only a sixteenth century citation and says the church was known > also as St Ald and St Owl's (!) but gives no references. > > Thanks! > > Graham Jones > > *********************************** > University of Leicester > Department of English Local History > Marc Fitch House > 5 Salisbury Road > Leicester LE1 7QR > > e-Mail: [log in to unmask] > *********************************** > > >For an interesting study of the origins of a cult consider the case of St Ivo - not the one who is the Cornish saint but the other in Cambs. His cult is studied in S.B.Edgington, THE LIFE AND MIRACLES OF ST IVO, Friends of the Norris Museum, St Ives Cambs, 1985. Thje role of Losinga bp of Norwich in the development of the cult is brought out. John France %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%