medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Wednesday, September 6, 2006, at 5:00 pm, Jon Cannon wrote:
> These 'improvements' all tighten the question: which wasn't my
> intentionat all - it's deliberately slightly open ended (indeed my
> brain's not really up to anything else...)
>
> In other words, yes, the underlying focus of my interest was the sites
> of shrines in England as they were at the moment of the
> Reformation. But
> many saints moved around considerably before then - think of Cuthbert,
> or poor old Oswald (the king one), with his limbs scattered to the
> west,north and east of the country.
Indeed. When I mentioned Oswald previously in this thread, I was
thinking of his head relic in Durham (which I haven't seen the last few
times I've been in the cathedral; perhaps it's not always on display
and I was fortunate to see it when I did). But I see from the last
paragraph here that it has rivals elsewhere (and note that the
reliquary shown is _not_ the one at Durham):
http://britannia.com/church/shrines/oswald.html
Oswald the Polycephalous, perhaps.
> And others left the country, both before
> - Boniface? German? - and after the Reformation.
Boniface's veneration at Utrecht, Mainz, and Fulda is early. Dokkum,
on the other hand, reverted to paganism not long after he was martyred
there, so though B. has relics there as well, there's no continuity of
cult. The best study I know of his medieval cult is Petra Kehl's _Kult
und Nachleben des Heiligen Bonifatius im Mittelalter (754-1200)_
(Fulda: Parzeller, 1993). I haven't seen Barbara Nichtweiss, ed.,
_Bonifatius in Mainz_ (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 2005) but it looks
interesting:
http://tinyurl.com/jsf9k
> And *all* these subjects are interesting, and welcome - I hope to the
> list, as well as to me. Keep them coming...
Well, in addition to the previously mentioned Richard of Andria (on
whom one may entertain doubts of many sorts) and Willibrord
(Luxembourg's only saint, apparently), there's also Walburga, the
patron saint of the abbey of Sankt Walburg in Eichstätt (Bayern). A
handy, English-language introduction to the continued veneration of her
remains within the diocese of Eichstätt (where her own monastery of
Heidenheim was located) is here:
http://www.bistum-eichstaett.de/abtei-st-walburg/in_englisch.html
Does anyone have anything to add on the grave sites of, or relics of,
her sainted brothers Willibald and Wunibald?
Best again,
John Dillon
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