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He is too the hero of the epic of Renaud de Montauban or the for sons of
Aymon. It is a very strange and fascinating person. H. Dontenville has showed
he was too a mythological character
Phyllis Jestice wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Today (7. January) is the feast day of:
>
> Cedd (d. 664) Cedd, born in c. 600 in Northumbria, was active as a
> missionary in Mercia, then in 648 founded the monastery of Lastingham in
> Yorkshire, which he led until his death. Later Cedd was consecrated as
> bishop. He probably died of plague.
>
> Widukind (d. c. 800) A very odd case of a political (?) saint. From the
> fifteenth century on, the Saxon nobleman Widukind was honored as a saint at
> a variety of places in Germany. Widukind led the Saxon revolt against
> Charlemagne---and opposed the introduction of Christianity into Saxony.
> Widukind submitted in 785 and received baptism.
>
> Reinold (d. c. 960) Reinold's history may be pure legend. He is supposed
> to have been of Carolingian blood, a monk at St. Pantaleon in Cologne. He
> oversaw the work of the stonemasons on the monastic church so strictly that
> one day they are supposed to have killed him with their hammers and thrown
> his corpse in a pond (where it was later found, with the help of a
> miracle).
>
> Knut Lavard (d. 1131) Knut was the nephew of St. Knut, king of Denmark.
> This younger Knut was born in 1096 and educated at the German court of
> Lothar III. In 1115 Knut became duke of south Jutland, and later king of a
> part of the Wends. He was very active in spreading Christianity in the
> lands under his control. Murdered by a relative in 1131, other relatives
> saw to Knut's canonization in 1169. In Denmark he is also honored as a
> martyr.
>
> Raimund of Penafort (d. 1275) Raimund was born in c. 1175 near Barcelona,
> and from 1210 was a professor of canon law at Bologna. In 1222 he entered
> the nascent Dominican order, and in the following years held a variety of
> offices in the order and in the larger Church (including confessor and
> advisor to Pope Gregory IX). Raimund also worked as a missionary among the
> Moors. In 1238 he was elected third general of he Dominican order, in
> which office he wrote a new constitution for the order (along with other
> important texts.)
>
> Matthew of Girgenti (d. 1450) (blessed) Matthew (Matteo) was from Girgenti
> in Sicily. After entering the Franciscan order, he was active as a
> wandering preacher. In 1442 Pope Eugenius IV forced Matthew to accept the
> bishopric of Girgenti, but he abdicated in 1445 on the grounds of the
> strong opposition he found there. His cult was approved in 1767.
>
> Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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