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There is a very interesting church in Cologne dedicated to him. For a
snapshot of the ceiling, see:
http://www.planetware.ca/photos/D/D283.HTM
Tom Izbicki
At 11:15 AM 6/24/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>May I pick the collective brains of the list about St Jeron/Geron/Hieron?
>He is depicted on a rood screen at North Tuddenham, Norfolk. He's >
>Flemish, he renounced his high status, became a priest and went off to >
>Holland where the Danes martyred him in 856. He is shown wearing a cassock
>over armour and carrying a falcon. The falcon is also apparently a > pun
>on his name, 'hierax' being the Greek word for falcon. > He's also on the
>screens at Litcham, Suffield, > and Trimingham which are in N-E Norfolk
>and C15/16. There is a little bit about him in a Norfolk Archaeology
>article on rood screens, but I know of nothing else. My colleague
>Katherine Lewis found the images and we would like to know more. I am
>interested because he may be a model for a character I'm working on who
>was a knight, married, had family, was widowered and late on became a
>priest. He is depicted in his brass, wearing armour with a chasuble over
>the top and carrying his arms (no sign of rejection of the world
>there). More broadly Jeron/Geron looks like a good role model for the
>devout lay male aristocrat.
>Dr Pat Cullum,
>Acting Head of History,
>University of Huddersfield,
>Huddersfield.
>HD1 3DH
>Telephone (01484) 472315
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Thomas M. Izbicki
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