medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (8. November) is the feast day of:
The Four Crowned Martyrs (3rd cent.) Four stone carvers, martyred
after they refused to carve a statue of Aesculapius for Diocletian.
Cybi (6th cent.) According to tradition Cybi was born in Cornwall.
He is supposed to have been a cousin of St. David of Wales. C.
refused to become king and went to Wales and then Ireland, eventually
founding a monastery on the island of Anglesey (Wales).
Deusdedit (d. 618) Deusdedit (aka Adeodatus) was a Roman who became
pope in 615. He may have been a monk. D. stands out particularly
for the services he provided after a major earthquake devastated the
city in 618, and because he seems to have been the first pope to use
a lead seal (bulla) on documents.
Tysilio (d. c. 640) Legend tells that Tysilio was the son of a
northern Welsh ruler who ran away to become a monk. He eventually
became abbot of Meiford, but was forced to leave when he refused to
marry his dead brother's wife and take over as ruler. He and his
monks went to Brittany in c. 617 and settled at a place now called
St. Suliac (T's alternative name).
Willehad (d. 789) Another of the Anglo-Saxon missionary "W"
collection, Willehad was a Northumbrian who went to Frisia in c. 766
(after Willibrord's time, alas) and narrowly escaped being killed by
recalcitrant Frisians several times. In 780 Charlemagne sent W. as a
missionary to the Saxons, but when the Saxons rebelled W. was nearly
killed and had to fee again. In 787 (after Charlemagne had done some
pretty ruthless suppressing) W. returned to the Saxon missionary
field as bishop of the Saxons, establishing his see at Bremen.
Moroc (9th cent.) The Scottish Moroc was abbot of Dunkeld and then
bishop of Dunblane. Numerous churches were named after him.
Godfrey of Amiens (d. 1115) Godfrey was a native of Soissons, a
child oblate at the monastery of Mt-St-Quentin. He became abbot of
Nogent in Champagne and in 1104 bishop of Amiens. He made himself
thoroughly unpopular with his notions of clerical discipline and
celibacy, as well as his attempts to eradicate simony.
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