By David Hugh Farmer
This is often excess of a dry hagiographical account of the lives of saints. This enjoyable and authoritative dictionary breathes existence into its matters and is as browsable because it is informative. significantly acclaimed in its many variations, the dictionary is now reissued into the rebranded best-selling Oxford Paperback Reference series.
The entries are concise money owed of the lives, cults, and inventive institutions of over 1,400 saints, from the well-known to the imprecise, the wealthy to the negative, and the tutorial to the uneducated. From all walks of existence and from all sessions of historical past, the extensive forms of personalities and achievements of the canonized are mirrored. that includes maps of pilgrimage points of interest in Europe and entirely up to date appendices, this continues to be the normal reference paperback in its field.
Recently-added saints contain the Martyrs of Korea, Vietnam, and the Spanish Civil conflict, Andrew of Crete, and Emily Rodat, a feminine hermit of the seventh century. There also are extra Scottish and Irish saints, and historic Welsh saints; extra ecu saints from all centuries, in addition to extra saints from jap Europe; extra lately canonized saints and feminine saints from the USA.
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X, 201. ACACIUS (no date), martyr, supposedly with 10,000 partners. The cult of those basically legendary martyrs turns out to have began in Armenia; their Acts heavily resemble these of *Maurice and the Theban legion. where in their loss of life was once claimed to be Mount Ararat. there isn't any early proof for a cult: the Acts date from the twelfth century and their attractiveness from the time of the Crusades. those contain a narrative that Acacius requested God earlier than their loss of life through crucifixion by the hands of a pagan military, that whoever commemorated their reminiscence could get pleasure from healthiness of brain and physique; for that reason, Acacius used to be usually incorporated one of the *Fourteen Holy Helpers. His cult thrived in Switzerland and Germany; it really is attested by means of numerous extraordinary artworks from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, together with a 15th-century stained glass window at Berne, which supplies the main entire pictorial list of the martyrdom. Relics have been claimed via Cologne, Prague, and different cities. finally those saints have been integrated in R. M. on 22 June, yet are passed over from its most up-to-date variation (2001). AA. SS. Iun. IV (1707), 175–88 with Propylaeum, pp. 249–50; Réau, i. 13–15. ACCA (d. 740), Benedictine monk, bishop of Hexham 709–32. As a tender guy he joined the loved ones of Bosa, bishop of York; later he grew to become the disciple of *Wilfrid and used to be his consistent significant other for 13 years, together with these which have been spent in numerous trips at the Continent. while Wilfrid was once unwell at Meaux in 705, Acca used to be advised the tale of his imaginative and prescient. On his deathbed Wilfrid named Acca his successor as abbot of Hexham. actually, Acca grew to become bishop in addition: he accomplished 3 of Wilfrid’s smaller church buildings and decorated the vital one with altars, relics, and sacred vessels. a talented singer himself, he entrusted his cathedral chant to Maban, a monk from Canterbury. Acca was once a awesome student. the wide variety and notable caliber of his theological library have been praised through *Bede, who devoted numerous of his biblical works to Acca in language of respectful friendship. Acca, for his half, recommended Bede to put in writing an easy remark on Luke, as that of *Ambrose was once too lengthy and diffuse. He additionally provided fabric to Bede for the Ecclesiastical background and to Eddius for his lifetime of Wilfrid. In 732 Acca both retired or used to be expelled from his see of Hexham for purposes unknown. The Hexham culture, supported by way of Martyrologies, asserts that he grew to become bishop of Whithorn. different writers attach his retirement with that of *Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria, within the comparable 12 months, or with the coming at York of Egbert as bishop. Acca was once buried at Hexham, close to the east wall of the cathedral. At his tomb have been positioned stone crosses, embellished with Mediterranean-style styles of grapes and tendrils, a part of which live on. within the overdue eleventh century his relics have been translated via Alfred Westow, priest of Hexham and sacrist of Durham. within the coffin was once chanced on a transportable altar inscribed Almae Trinitati, agiae Sophiae, sanctae Mariae. His relics have been translated in 1154 and back in 1240.