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Vie de saint Etienne

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' III, 6) ( BHL 7845) (Perrot, 1992: 20, 180-189) - Commission: /

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ABSTRACT

Life of saint Etienne, also known as pope Stephen I, successor to Pope Lucius I in 254. During his papal office Stephen had a blurred relationship with the bishops in Africa and Asia Minor. There was a disagreement about the validity of the sacrament of baptism when it was administered by heretics. Pope Stephen was an adherent of the apostolic tradition and forbade the re-baptism to great dissatisfaction and opposition of Cyprian of Carthage and the bishops in Asia Minor. Eventually Stephen was martyred to death and buried in the catacombs of Callixtus.

SOURCES

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MANUSCRIPTS

Dublin, Trinity College, B 2.8
Sainte-Geneviève, bibliotheek, 587

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

MEYER (P.), Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, XXXVI (1901), II 690-691 (fragment)

LITERATURE

Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 7845
MEYER (P.), Légendes hagiographiques en français, in: Histoire littéraire de la France, XXXIII (1906) 393-458
PERROT (J.P.), Le Passionnaire français au Moyen Age (Genève, 1992)
VAN DER LINDEN (S.), De Heiligen (Antwerpen, 1999) 824-825

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Contributor:
Jeroen Deploige
An-Katrien Hanselaer

Update:
2014-03-18 11:24:32