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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:23:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Holy Innocents From: John Shinners <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Reply-to: [log in to unmask] The monk Aubrey of Trois-Fontaines, one of the more unreliable reporters of the Childrens' Crusade, claims that the bodies of some of the children supposedly killed in a shipwreck at the "island of St. Peter-at-the-Rock, which is called Recluse" were buried at a church of the "New Innocents" built on the island by order of Gregory IX, and that their uncorrupted bodies were shown to pilgrims there. John Shinners ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Shinners e-mail: [log in to unmask] Chair and Professor Phone: (office): (219) 284-4494 Humanistic Studies Program Phone (dept.): (219) 284-4501 Saint Mary's College Fax: (219) 284-4716 Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 I agree with you about Alberic (Aubrey) of Trois-Fontaines: he is one of the most successful mythmakers of the children's crusade. Much of what he says is highly implausible (see Zacour in Setton, *History of the Crusades*, Vol. 2) but there is no confirmation of his story about the memorial church in Gregory IX's *Registers*. (Dr.) Gary Dickson University of Edinburgh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%