medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (5. October) is the feast day of:
Raymond of Capua (blessed; d. 1399). Today's less well known
not-yet-saint from the Regno was born around 1330 at Capua. A member of
the noble family of the delle Vigne, he entered the Dominican order
while a student of canon law at Bologna; after a lengthy _cursus
honorum_ he became its Master in 1380, vigorously supporting the Roman
obedience as against that of Avignon. R. was Catherine of Siena's
confessor from 1374 to 1380 and her hagiographer from 1385 to 1395, when
he completed his _Legenda sancte Catherine Senensis_ (BHL 1702). Much
earlier, in 1365-66, he wrote the Legend of another Dominican, Bl. Agnes
of Montepulciano (BHL 155); this has been recently edited by Silvia
Nocentini as Raimondo da Capua, _Legenda beate Agnetis de Monte
Policiano_ (Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001). Nocentini
has also attempted to ascribe to R. the authorship of the sequence
_Vernans rosa_ (“Una sequenza inedita di Raimondo da Capua,” _Medioevo e
Rinascimento_ 12 [= n.s., 9] [1998], 205-21). But this founders on the
likely earlier date of a mutilated Turin manuscript (Bobbiese F. I. 4;
not discussed by Nocentini) containing the piece's initial lines.
R. was beatified by Leo XIII in 1899. The recently remembered Julian of
Palermo was likewise beatified five hundred years after _his_ death.
Is/was cinquecentennial beatification a common practice?
Best,
John Dillon
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