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Dear George (and other members), A slightly belated query about 13 September, the feast of ... > * Maurilius, bishop of Angers (453) > - a native of Milan; there is a tradition in Angers that he had a > vision of singing angels on the night of 8 September, inducing him to > institute the feast of the Birthday of Mary in the diocese there There also seems to be a story about Maurilius healing a child (or restoring it to life) - not an uncommon thing to do for saints but apparently it is the subject of a medieval wallpainting at Angers and I am very interested in depictions of children in medieval art. Can anyone give any more details about a miracle by Maurilius involving a child? Thank you in advance! Sophie Oosterwijk Dept of the History of Art University of Leicester e-mail: [log in to unmask] PS: With regard to Amatus or Ame, bishop of Sion in Valais (c. 690), who would hang up his cloak on a sunbeam - he may have got that idea from the young Christ who, according to versions of the apocryphal childhood of Christ, did similarly curious tricks with sunbeams. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%