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Vie de saint Procès et de saint Martinien

Century: 13

Hagiography

French

Dioc. Cambrai

INCIPIT

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EXPLICIT

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Anonymous: Mon. Valcellensis-Passionaire français (Naso 2217)

Sex: M- Bio: -Status author (order, function): Cistercian Monks (SOCist)

EDITING

Location:Probably Vaucelles - Date:Shortly before 1250 (incorporated in the first Passionaire français I, 7) (BHL 6947) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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ABSTRACT

Life of St. Processus and St. Martinian (+ after 69). Both were warders in the Mamertine prison in Rome. They had been instructed by emperor Nero to keep guard over the imprisoned apostle Peter and Paul. Nevertheless Processus and Martinian were converted during their mission because Peter miraculously let a spring flow in prison. With this water he baptized the two guards. Therefore, they underwent several tortures and eventually suffered martyrdom by beheading. Their bodies were buried according to legend, by a certain St. Lucina at the cemetery of St. Damasus, located on the Via Aurelia.

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INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek, 588

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 410-411 (fragment)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 6947
DEIMLING (B.), 'Sts Processus and Martinianus in the Sancta Sanctorum', Burlington Magazine 140 (1998) 471-473
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906)
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992) 393-458
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 735

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Update:
2014-03-18 13:16:53