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A monk of Fulda who was responsible for composing a life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, at the request of Eilika, abbess of Niedermünster, not long after Erhard's relics were translated.

Paulus Iudaeus

Paulus Iudaeus

(d. 1066)

A monk of Fulda who was responsible for composing a life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg, at the request of Eilika, abbess of Niedermünster, not long after Erhard's relics were translated.

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A Latin Life of Erhard, bishop of Regensburg and patron of Niedermünster, written within a few years of this canonisation in 1052. According to the prologue, it was written by Paulus Iudaeus, a monk of Fulda, at the request of Eilika/Heilika, abbess of Niedermünster. Although according to modern scholarship, Erhard was more likely of Frankish origin, perhaps from Narbonnne, the text by Paulus alleges that he was Irish (Scoticus), a claim which may be best explained with reference to the Irish presence in Regensburg in the 11th century. BHL 2590.

Vita sancti Ethbini

prose

Short, anonymous vita of St Ethbin, al. Idiunet/Idunet (in the Quimper MS), a fellow monk of Winwaloe. BHL 2621.

Vita sancti Ethbini (John of Tynemouth)

prose

John of Tynemouth

John of Tynemouth

(fl. 14th century)

English historian and hagiographer, known for having produced a chronicle, the Historia aurea, and a collection of saints’ lives, the Sanctilogium Anglia, Wallia, Scotiae et Hiberniae, which would form the basis of the Nova legenda Angliae.

A short redaction of the vita of St Ethbin, here called Egbinus, from the hagiographic collection of John of Tynemouth.

Vita sancti Euflami

prose

Latin Life of St Efflam. BHL 2665.

Vita sancti Fechini

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Latin life of St Féchín, abbot of Fore.

Vita sancti Fechini ex MSS Hibernicis (Colgan)

prose

Colgan (John)

Colgan (John)

(d. 1658)

Irish Franciscan at St Anthony’s College, Louvain; scholar, theologian, editor and hagiographer.

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 Findani confessoris

form undefined

Life of the 9th-century Irish saint Fintán of Rheinau (modern Switzerland, near Schaffhausen). He is said to be a Leinsterman whom vikings carried off as a captive to the Orkneys, after which he escaped and travelled as a pilgrim to Rome. On his way home, he met and joined the community of anchorites based at Rheinau.

Vita sancti Fintani abbatis de Cluain Ednech

prose

Latin Life of St Fintan of Clúain Eidnech (Clonenagh, Co. Laois). It is reckoned among the so-called O’Donohue saints’ Lives. BHL 2994.

Vita sancti Flannani

prose

Medieval Latin Life of St Flannán, abbot of Killaloe

Vita sancti Forannani (Robert of Waulsort)

prose

Robert of WaulsortRobert of Waulsort

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Vita sancti Fridolini (Balther)

prose

Balther of SäckingenBalther of Säckingen

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A 10th-century Latin account of the life and miracles of St Fridolin, missionary and reputed founder of the monastery of Säckingen. The text was written by Balther, a native of Säckingen, who had been a monk of St Gall and became bishop of Speyer in 970. Balther added a prologue in which he claimed that he drew on an earlier vita from an unnamed monastery near the Moselle and that he had memorised its contents before writing down his account. Balther claims that Fridolin came from Ireland, although this may well be an afterthought. BHL 3170.

Vita sancti Fursei

form undefined

Life of the Irish missionary St Fursa (d. c. 649). BHL 3209.

Vita sancti Galli (Walahfrid Strabo)

prose

Walahfrid StraboWalahfrid Strabo

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Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Walahfrid Strabo. It was written to supersede Wetti’s reworking of an earlier life of the saint (Vita vetustissima) and like Wetti’s version, was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall. BHL 3247-3249.

Vita sancti Galli (Wetti of Reichenau)

prose

Wetti of ReichenauWetti of Reichenau

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Latin account of the life and miracles of St Gall, one of Columbanus’ disciples and founder of St. Gall, written by Wetti (Wettinus), a monk of Reichenau (d. 824). It was commissioned by Gozbert, abbot of St. Gall, to whom a metrical prologue is dedicated. BHL 3246.

Vita sancti Galli metrica

verse

beg. Promissi memor ecce mei, Gotzberte, quod olim [prologue] ... Sol qui multifluo distinguit lumine mundum [main text]

A metrical version of Walahfrid Strabo’s Life of St Gall(us), founder of the abbey of St. Gall. While Walahfrid announced such a text in his prose Life, it seems that he did not live to carry out the plan, at least if one follows Walter Berschin in ruling out his authorship of the poem, except perhaps (part of) the prologue, on stylistic grounds. The prologue is addressed to Gozbert the Younger, monk of St. Gall. BHL 3253.

Vita sancti Galli metrica (Notker)

verse

prosimetrum

prose

Notker Balbulus

Notker Balbulus

(c.840–912)

A monk, teacher and poet at the monastery of St. Gall, who had received training from Iso and the Irishman Marcellus/Móengal; author of a prosimetrical Life of St Gall.

Prosimetrical version of the Life of St Gall, written by Notker Balbulus and extant only in fragmentary form.

Vita sancti Galli vetustissima

prose

Earliest, Latin life of St Gall, founder of St. Gall in modern-day Switzerland, which survives only in fragmentary form. BHL 3245.

Vita sancti Goeznovei

prose

William the BretonWilliam the Breton

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BHL 3608-3609.

Vita sancti Gregorii Magni (Whitby version)

prose

Anonymous [Whitby author of Vita sancti Gregorii]Anonymous ... Whitby author of Vita sancti Gregorii

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Anonymous Life of St Gregory the Great, written by a monk or nun of Streoneshealh (Whitby abbey, modern Yorkshire) before 714. It is the first known Life of the saint and highlights the role of the Gregorian mission in the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. BHL 3637.

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