medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, July 4, 2005, at 5:24 am, John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> >
> > PS: Other well attested father-saints are Gregory of Nazianzus the
> > Elder (1. January), pope Felix II (III; 1. March), and the
> > Anglo-Saxon Richard of England (7. February).
>
> Richard is, of course, an unlikely name for an Anglo-Saxon - well-
> attested
> or not.
Indeed. One wishes that Reginald of Eichstätt or whoever first pinned
this name on him had chosen 'Eadmer' or 'Tostig' instead. He's the
father of Sts. Willibald, Winnebald, and Walburga, attested to without
name in Huneberc of Heidenheim's _Hodoeporicon_ of Willibald as having
accompanied the latter on his pilgrimage, as having died at Lucca, and
as having been laid to rest there in the church of St. Frigidian**.
Were his legend Lucchese and not German, I would probably know more
about that. But though the now conventional name is surely incorrect,
the saint himself seems real enough.
Best again,
John Dillon
**A predecessor of today's San Frediano, famous for its external mosaic:
http://www.cord.edu/faculty/andersod/m25_lucca04.jpg
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