> Today, 13 September, is the feast of ...
>
> * Maurilius, bishop of Angers (453)
> - a native of Milan; there is a tradition in Angers that he had a
> vision of singing angels on the night of 8 September, inducing him to
> institute the feast of the Birthday of Mary in the diocese there
Tradition also held that Maurilius exiled himself to Britain (where he worked as
a lord's gardener) after neglecting to baptise a dying child. The child was
restored to life and, as Renatus (sic), succeeded him as bishop. (AA.SS.)
Suspecting that Maurilius may be the St Mawrell whose (?relic ?image) was
venerated in the late MA at Hallaton, Leicestershire, together with a
(?post-Reformation) 'holy' well, I should be grateful to hear from any fellow
list-member who can advise on the extent (if any) to which Maurilius was
commemorated at the abbey of St Nicholas of Angers, which was granted pecuniary
rights elsewhere in Leicestershire in the late eleventh century.
Graham Jones
Leicester
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