This is not an area I know at all well, but might not a dedication to All
Saints have something to do with the relics available to dedicate the
altar (if, indeed, relics were always needed to dedicate an altar - does
anyone know?)? Reliquaries often contained the remains of more
than one saint, and it is easy to imagine a venerable heap of mushed
up bits of this and that not being completely identifiable. What else
could one do with such a holy mess?
Curiously (and hopefully not irreverently),
Jim Bugslag
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