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Saint Jean Discalceat (1286-1349), franciscain, peut-être originaire de
Saint-Vougay (dioc. de Léon) vécut dans le diocèse de Cornouaille en
Bretagne. Surnommé "Santig Du" ("Le petit saint noir") du fait de la couleur
sombre de sa bure, il s'attacha à secourir les pauvres, et mourut durant
durant la "grande pestilance" qui secoua l'Europe entière.
On le vénère et l'invoque pour obtenir des grâces, retrouver les objets
perdus et obtenir le beau temps. La coutume veut, qu'en signe de
remerciement, on lui offre un pain : le premier nécéssiteux passant par
l'église a le droit de l'emporter.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charaphe/cm2/bure.htm : statue du saint XVIIème dans
l'église de Quimper provenant de l'ancien couvent franciscain de la ville.
Ses reliques se trouvent dans le déambulatoire de la cathédrale:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/charaphe/cm2/crane.htm
Voir sa vie, dans la version du dominicain Albert Le Grand (1636) :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pennker/saints/santigdu.htm
j.l. raphalen
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 15. December
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Today (15. December) is the feast day of:
>
> Christiana (Nina, Nino) (d. c. 340?) Christiana was a Christian girl,
> captured and brought to Georgia as a slave. She impressed people with her
> devotion and thaumaturgic powers, including a cure of the queen of
Georgia.
> She ended up teaching the king about the "new religion," after which he
> sent to Constantine asking for missionaries. This story was reported by
> Rufinus in c.403; there are doubts about its historic accuracy.
>
> Silvia (Silviana) of Constantinople (d. c. 420) Silvia was regarded as
one
> of the most learned women of her time. She was active in combatting
> heresy.
>
> Offa of Essex (d. c. 709) Offa was son of King Sighere of the East Saxons
> and Osith. O. became king in c. 707---Bede says he was a popular ruler.
> But in 709 he forsook his marriage and abdicated. He went to Rome, where
> he became a monk and died soon afterwards.
>
> Paul of Latros (d. 955) Paul was a hermit in the Latros mountains of
> Anatolia, honred as a councillor and helper of people in need. Like so
> many hermits, he ended up getting fed up with the stream of visitors he
> attracted and fled to the island of Patmos---but he returned soon. A
major
> monastery developed around Paul's hermitage.
>
> John Discalceat (d. 1349) John was a stonemason who became a Franciscan
> and a priest. He won fame for his asceticism as pastor of a church in
> Rennes, where he carried out his duties barefoot (thus his nickname). He
> died of plague.
>
> Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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