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Empress Tiffany?
Please!
DW
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>
> I can dig out the full story, but it seems that the Empress Tiffany
brought
> with her as part of her dowry the relics (a bone ? some the bones ?) of
> Saint Alban of Verulamium the British proto-martyr which had been given to
> St Germanus of Auxerre. These were enshrined in St P's which was her
> foundation and where she is entombed. Very pretty casket with the story of
> St Alban's martyrdom as a (comic) strip of little gold panels.
>
> However, the latest theory among the historians of St Albans (England) is
> that the relics of St A in Cologne may have been joined in the 1530s by
the
> rest of his bones which could have been smuggled out of England and
> preserved in the one place which already had a cult of St Alban of
> Verulamium and so would not draw anyone's attention (esp. not Harry 8's
!!!)
> to the possibility that the good monks of St Albans had cheated H8 of his
> right to put such superstitious abominations on the bonfire - and that
what
> the enthusiastic Reformers may have trashed was the substitute bones of
> Brother X. Certainly the ex-Abbot would not have survived to appropriate
the
> Lady Chapel and to transform himself into the town's first Grammar School
> headmaster ! Certainly the monks of St Albans would have had plenty of
> notice of the impending revolution.
>
> Brenda - former resident of St Albans who had been on pilgrimage to
Cologne
> and also to Hildersheim where another of the pre-Reformation treasures of
St
> Albans (the Albani Psalter) ended up presumably having been smuggled out
of
> England under someone's doublet!
>
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