medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Thursday, January 8, 2009, at 6:21 pm, John Briggs wrote:
> John Dillon wrote:
> >
> > Today (8. January) is the feast day of:
>
> Wlsinus [your guess is as good as mine...] "bishop and confessor" [a
> reassuring combination]
This is St. Wulsin (Wulfsin, Wulfsige; to the Bollandists, Vulsinus), abbot of Westminster and bishop of Sherborne (d. 1002, acc. to Julia Barrow in the ODNB, s.v. Wulfsige). He has a brief Vita by Goscelin of St.-Bertin (BHL 8753).
Here's his notice in the 1995 revision by Paul Burns of the January part of Butler's _Lives of the Saints_:
http://tinyurl.com/8g7sc9
> In the Westminster Calendar, a Feast (presumably) of three lessons.
Burns' willingness to mislead his readers when precautionary fact-checking could have provided a corrective appears not to have been limited to foreign parts (_vide_ his apparent belief that Brussels' St. Michael and St. Gudula is not a cathedral church). For here he tells us (January vol. of Butler's _Lives of the Saints_, 1995, p. 61), in seeming ignorance of the calendar of W.'s own Westminster, that W.'s name "does not appear in medieval calendars." Caveat lector.
Best,
John Dillon
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