medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I should mention one more aspect alluded to by Eric Drigsdahl:
Inclusion in Acta Sanctorum as "Saint" or in a reference work like LThK need not bear any direct correspondence to the formal status of cult. The Bollandists included a lot of people who enjoyed local or regional veneration as either Blesseds or Saints (of course these terms were interchangable in medieval Latin and the clear distinction between beatification and sanctification introduced by the early modern legislation was relatively new, certainly had not yet taken hold by the time the February AS volumes were done in the mid-17thc) who had not been formally approved for universal veneration because the terms were not yet used in that rigorous way. (There could, in many cases, have been some local diocesan approval.)
So, part of the answer for this individual will be found by recourse to the AS entry for Feb. 1--the nature and level of the local cult will be described there. But it won't tell us what happened in the 1960s to stimulate petition for formal recognition of cult.
Dennis Martin
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear John
The term used by Phyllis Jestice was: "cult formally approved in 1966".
I do not know what was decided in Rome in 1966, but:
Adelheid has really been a formally acknowled saint for centuries.
Locally is her cult well documented (especially in Pützchen, where her
reliquies are), she was included in the Acta Sanctorum in 1658 (Febr. I,
p.713-721), and the eminent "Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche" Vol.1, 1957,
has a separate article on her (col.142), specifically mentioned as *Saint*
(Feast February 5! - although her death was on the 3rd of February). The
"formal approval" in 1966 is most probably only a formality in conjunction
with the massive revisions during the Vatican Council II. (Could perhaps be
about the official date?)
As I see it, is her case not comparable to the other female saints where a
very late canonization has puzzled some members of this list.
Best
Erik Drigsdahl
At 22:19 -0500 02/02/02, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Dear Phyllis: Any ideas about why Adelheid of Vilich (d. sometime
>between 1010 and 1020) was not canonized until l966?
> John
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