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Sermunculus de vita sancti Winwaloei
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Short, homiletic redaction of the vita of St Winwaloe, in 17 lectiones. BHL 8962.

Vita abbreviata sancti Winwaloei
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An abbreviated version of Wrdisten’s Life of St Winwaloe, in 21 lectiones, produced perhaps in northern France. BHL 8961.

Vita compendiosa sancti Winwaloei
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Bernard (Jacques) [d. 1652]
Bernard (Jacques) ... d. 1652
(1589–1652)
Jesuit hagiographer.

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A short redaction of Wrdisten’s vita of St Winwaloe from Quimper MS 16, created by the Jesuit Jacques Bernard (d. 1652) for inclusion in the Acta sanctorum (Martius I). BHL 8964.

Vita interpolata sancti Winwaloei
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A short redaction of the vita of St Winwaloe, based on an abridged, homiletic redaction (BHL 8962, called Sermunculus de vita s. Winwaloei by J.-C. Poulin). BHL 8953. A distinct feature of the present version is that it also borrows an episode relating to St Ethbin from the Vita brevior, with a unique conclusion in which both saints travel to Ireland.

Vita sancti Fechini ex MSS Hibernicis (Colgan)
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Colgan (John)
Colgan (John)
(d. 1658)
Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

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The second vita of St Féchín printed by John Colgan in his Acta sanctorum Hiberniae. Colgan made use of three Irish sources, which he conflated and translated into Latin to produce a composite text. The first life he found in a manuscript associated with Féchín's monastery in the island of Omey (vnam fusam ex Codice Immaciensi in Connacia, quam eius compilator aliàs recentior ... indicat ... desumptam esse ex alia latina); the second life is described as aliam habemus stylo plane uetusto et magnae fidei, sed principio et fine carentem. Plummer suggests that these lives must have corresponded to the vernacular life and homily found in NLI MS G 5. The third source is a metrical version now lost (tertiam uero uetusto et eleganti metro lxxiv distichis constante).

Vita sancti Winwaloei (BHL 8964b)
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A redaction of the vita of St Winwaloe of Landévennec, which is attested in two medieval manuscripts of English provenance. BHL 8964b.