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Thanks much for the corrective leads below! As one who is somewhat "unlearned" in the ways of the saints, this has been a great way for me to grow in new areas. So to speak, a kind of "learn-as-you-go" experience!
Peace,
Matt Heintzelman
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The quote below from an 1866 ed. of the _Lives of the Saints_ by Alban Butler (1710-1773) accurately summarizes what Ado himself says in the prefatory matter to what used to be called the _vetus Romanum martyrologium_ but which since the earlier eighteenth century has been better known as the _parvum Romanum_. What in view of Butler's date this quotation could not very well summarize, and what when unaccompanied by any corrective makes it terribly misleading today, is Henri Quentin's early twentieth-century demonstration (in his _Les martyrologes historiques du Moyen Âge_ [Paris, 1908]), now generally accepted, that this supposedly _venerabile perantiquum martyrologium_ -- to use Ado's own words -- was instead 1) derived from one form of the earlier ninth-century martyrology of Florus of Lyon, from which latter it differs chiefly by the absence of entries for relatively recent saints, 2) _not_ the impetus for Ado's own _Martyrologium_ (an earlier version of which already existed), and 3) in all probability created by Ado himself and placed by him at the beginning of the second edition of his _Martyrologium_ to provide an ancient pedigree for his enterprise. When at the head of his introduction to the _parvum Romanum_ Ado styles himself _Ado peccator_ and then goes on to relate his tale of how he discovered this martyrology in Ravenna he is engaging in rather more than the clichéd tapinosis ordinarily expressed by that formula.
Best,
John Dillon
On 12/16/14, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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> [Archbishop Ado, 800-875] “After the death of Marcvard, he was, through envy and jealousy, expelled the house, treated with great contempt, and oppressed by outrageous slanders. Ado took this opportunity to visit the tombs of the apostles at Rome, and stayed five years in that city. From thence he removed to Ravenna, where he found an old Martyrology, of which he took a copy, which he improved by many additions and corrections, and published about the year 858. He also compiled a chronicle, and wrote the lives of St. Desiderius and St. Chef.” (Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1866): http://www.bartleby.com/210/12/161.html)
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