medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at 4:15 am, Rosemary Hayes wrote:
> That was one of my thoughts - but, of course, he was not martyred! As
> no one has come up with a martyred priest, I think it must just be
> Alban. Next question is whether I let it go or try a spot of re-education!
It's just possibly the Augulus or Augulius who is entered in early medieval martyrologies under 7. February as a martyr of Britannia and who, thanks to a more recent identification with the St. Aule venerated in Normandy, in English is also called St. Aule. The martyrologies tend to call him a bishop, in which case (assuming his consecration to have been canonical) he would have been a priest. Augulus got into Butler's _Lives of the Saints_ and from there he lives on in other compilations.
I'm not sure that the objection that Alban (or, for that matter, Augulus) antedated England will cut much ice. Saints of territories that preceded various nation states are by retrojection commonly called saints of those later polities and Alban at least (Augulus is much trickier) is pretty clearly a saint of the parts of Britannia that became England.
Best,
John Dillon
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