Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1980, Side 224
206
of Fussen, 16/10 Galli cf, and 16/11 Othmari abb., of Saint-Gall,
over the whole German area, and the same applies to 22/10 Seueri
ep., of Ravenna, after his translation to Mainz and Erfurt in 836.
Other feasts of saints are of a more local character.
10/3 Vid m. is the date of his translation, found in some of the
calendars of Cologne, and in the late-medieval calendars of Bremen,
Halberstadt, Frankfurt, and Merseburg.
11/3 Gorgonii m. commemorates Reliquiarum Adventus in Minden
(also of his fellow-saint Dorotheus), in some of the calendars of Co-
logne, and in Utrecht.
16/7 Bertini abb., the date of his translation, is quoted by Grotefend
only from the calendar of Tournai. This is an intriguing entry, as his
Natale, 5 September, introduced by Usuard, does not appear in our
calendar. He is entered on 17 July in the late-medieval calendar of
Copenhagen, which seems to presuppose a German intermediary.
Our compiler also drew upon an English source. Some of the saints
of the Anglo-Saxon Church were propagated by the Anglo-Saxon
missionaries in Germany, and they are represented in Usuard’s
Martyrology as well as in the German calendar tradition. This applies
to 20/3 Cuthberti ep. cf., of Lindisfarne; 24/4 Melliti ep., of
Canterbury, represented in the calendars of Cologne, and specially
celebrated in Bremen; and 26/5 Augusdni Anglorum. 21/6 Albani,
England’s protomartyr, is entered on his German date, as found in
Mainz, while he is celebrated on 22 June in England (and in Nidaros).
5/8 Osuualdi regis m. was celebrated all over Germany; 5/6 Boni-
facii, 3/10 Euualdorum duorum pb., and 7/11 Willibrordi ep. are
virtually German saints. 27/5 Bede pb., not represented in Usuard, as
a rule appears in the German calendars together with Augustinus
Anglorum on 26 May.
However, other English saints, of the Anglo-Saxon Church as well
as those propagated from the late tenth century onwards, are foreign to
the German calendar tradition. This applies to some of the heroes of
Bede: 1/3 (2/3) Ceadde ep.; 13/4 Wilfridi cf. (who appears, excep-
tionally, in the above-mentioned calendar MS Ambros. M. 12 sup.,
published by B. Bischoff, p. 251, but on his right date, 24 April); 7/5
Johannis ep., of Beverley; and 23/6 Ædeldride v.; further, to 9/1
Judoci cf, commemorating his translation to the New Minster in 977
(while our calendar ignores his Natale, 13 December); 17/6 Botulfi