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The miracle stories surrounding Sainte Foy form one of the most complete sets of material relating to a medieval saint's cult and its practices. Pamela Sheingorn's superb translation from the Medieval Latin texts now makes this literature available in English. The Book of Sainte Foy recounts the virgin saint's martyrdom in the third century ( Passio ), the theft of her relics in the late ninth century by the monks of the monastery at Conques ( Translatio ), and her diverse miracles ( Liber miraculorum ); also included is a rendering of the Provençal Chanson de Sainte Foy, translated by Robert L. A. Clark. The miracles distinguish Sainte Foy as an unusual and highly individualistic child saint displaying a fondness for gold and pretty things, as well as a penchant for playing practical jokes on her worshippers. In his record of Sainte Foy, Bernard of Angers, the eleventh-century author of the first parts of the Liber miraculorum , emphasized the saint's "unheard of" miracles, such as replacing missing body parts and bringing dead animals back to life. The introduction to the volume situates Sainte Foy in the history in the history of hagiography and places the saint and her monas

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Author
Sheingorn, Pamela; Sheingorn, Pamela;
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780585172262
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Biography, Memoir

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