medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Can anyone on the list provide bibliography for the story of
columkille defending the poets?
thanks,
meg
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Today (29. January) is the feast day of:
>Sabinianus of Troyes (d. 275?) According to legend, Sabinianus was from
>the Greek isalnd of Samos. He came to Troyes (Gaul) as a missionary, and
>was martyred in the time of Aurelianus. In legend, he was accompanied by
>his sister Sabina, who was also martyred.
>Gildas the Wise (d. 570) Gildas is most famous as the author of The Ruin
>of Britain, our best source for sub-Roman Britain and the earliest
>semi-source for the King Arthur legend. Perhaps he later went to Brittany,
>where he lived as a hermit, possibly founding the monastery
>St-Gildas-de-Ruys.
>Dallan Forghaill (d. 598) According to tradition, Dallan was the chief bard
>of Ireland by 575, when the assembly of Druim Cett attempted to abolish the
>order of bards. After St. Columcille successfully defended the poets,
>Dallan wrote a eulogy of Columcille (the Amra Columcille) in thanksgiving.
>A late legend explains that the poet purposely used obscure and difficult
>language because the humble Columcille would only allow the poem to be
>written if it were incomprehensible to the average Irishman. Dallan became
>a monk and a renowned scholar who so strained his eyes that he went blind.
>He is regarded as one of the few early martyrs of Ireland, since he was
>killed in a pirate raid on his monastery of Inis Coel (Inniskeel).
>Julianus the Hospitaller (7th cent.) Legend reports that Julianus was born
>sometime in the seventh century in either Belgium or Spain. In a dream, a
>deer told Julianus that he would kill his own parents, whereupon Julianus
>fled from his parents' house. One day while J. was hunting, his parents
>turned up at his home. J's wife put her in-laws in her own bedchamber. J.
>came home, thought he saw his own wife in bed with a strange man, and
>killed both his parents. After this, J. became a full-time penitent. In
>Provence (or perhaps Italy) he erected a hospice for the sick and dying,
>caring for them himself after carrying them through the river to the door.
>One day he was helping a sick person, and suddenly recognized that it was
>actually Jesus he was helping.
>Aquilinus (d. c. 1015) The martyr Aquilinus (or Wezelin) was from
>Wurzburg, and later became a canon in Cologne. In c. 1015, during a visit
>to Milan, he was murdered by heretics. He was buried in S. Lorenzo
>Maggiore in Milan, and a cult soon developed. (Would anybody know a source
>for this tale? An alternative version from another source pushes Aquilinus
>back nearly four centuries, with a death in c. 650 at the hands of Milanese
>Arians.)
>Charles of Villers (blessed) (d. 1212) Charles was a soldier who entered
>the Cistercian monastery of Himmerod in the Eifel in 1185. From 1189 on he
>was prior of Heisterbach, then from 1197 on abbot of Villers in Brabant.
>In 1209, though, he abdicated from his office and retired to Himmerod as a
>simple monk.
>Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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