• Usuard (died 23 January 875) was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and a Carolingian scholar. His name appears in a list of monks...
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    The Martyrology of Usuard is a work by Usuard, a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The prologue is dedicated to Charles the Bald...
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  • Wolfhard Tallaght Oengus The most famous of all is that of Usuard (c. 875), Martyrology of Usuard, on which the Roman martyrology was based. The first edition...
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    as a saint. The first source to mention Maturinus is the Martyrology of Usuard, written in 875. In the next century, a biography of Maturinus was composed...
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  • wherever the Roman Rite was in use. The main source was the Martyrology of Usuard, completed by the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I and the works of some of the...
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    in Cologne was dedicated. The most important hagiographers (Bede, Ado, Usuard, Notker the Stammerer, Hrabanus Maurus) of the early Middle Ages also do...
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    settlement and centre of pilgrimage emerged, which was known to the author Usuard in 865 and which was called Compostella by the 10th century. The devotion...
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    Joannes Molanus included a footnote on Simon of Trent in his 1568 edition of Usuard's martyrology, and this was then incorporated into the new official edition...
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    settlement and centre of pilgrimage emerged, which was known to the author Usuard in 865 and by the 10th century was called Compostella. The Way of St James...
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    community of some eighty women. Her name appears in the Martyrology of Usuard as well as in the church calendars of York and Northumbria. Her feast day...
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    the first time as Cristoilum in the martyrology written by a monk named Usuard in 865. The name Cristoilum is made of the Celtic word ialo (meaning "clearing...
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    Origen in the third book of his Commentaries on the Genesis (254 C.E.), Usuard in his Martyrdom written between 845-865, and Jacobus de Voragine in the...
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    martyrology of Ado of Vienne (d. 875) and then in the more concise version of Usuard (d. 876/877). The latter was the most widely circulated in subsequent centuries...
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    Verissimus, Maxima, and Julia, c. 303, first attested in the Martyrology of Usuard (8th century) List of Christian women of the patristic age Frend, Martyrdom...
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    on 28 September. The first martyrologist to assign it to this date was Usuard, who wrote towards the end of the 9th century. St. Exuperius - Catholic...
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    (954–986); and in the auctaria (local additions) to the Martyrology of Usuard from the area of modern Belgium. One auctarium, however, places his feast...
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    The first mention of the sanctuary dedicated to Aphrodisius is made by Usuard, who undertook a voyage in 858 to bring back from Spain relics for his abbey...
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  • his cult in Berry appears late among the additions to the Martyrology of Usuard; it is cited in the Breviary of Bourges in 1625. He is the patron of St-Gondon...
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    (Paradana); a doctor named Emilius or Emelius ("Emilianus" according to Usuard), brother-in-law of Dativa; Tertius, a monk of Byzacena; and Boniface, surnamed...
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  • century, did the same, but more briefly. The ninth-century Martyrology of Usuard copied that of Ado and was in turn copied by the Roman Martyrology of Caesar...
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  • architecture, art and historical documents. Bouillart also edited a martyrology of Usuard. In this publication he attempted to establish the genuineness and authenticity...
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    Mozarabic mass dedicated to Cucuphas); Martyrology of Ado; Martyrology of Usuard (9th century); and the Martyrology of Saint Peter of Cardeña (10th century...
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    references to the three saints can be found in the 8th-century Martyrology of Usuard. The city's ancient devotion to the martyrs Verissimus, Maxima, and Julia...
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    departure, and preserved in an appendix to a copy of the Martyrology of Usuard) only three complete volumes of theology, and focused heavily on classical...
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    was listed as 6 July in the 1468 Florentine edition of the Martyrology of Usuard, and in the 16th century, his name began to appear in the Roman Martyrology...
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  • (Tarifa). Servandus and Germanus are mentioned in the martyrologies of Bede, Usuard, Ado, as well as the Mozarabic Breviary, and in the Breviaries of Toledo...
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    Gertrudian" of the 10th century. In manuscripts prior to the Martyrology of Usuard his feast day is recorded on 11 January. In the calendars of saints of the...
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  • and the Carthusians of Brussels, in their additions to the Martyrology of Usuard, place them among the martyrs honoured in the church on this day. Upon this...
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  • wrote her biography based upon a 9th-century text by the Benedictine monk Usuard between 1450 and 1479, she lived a pious life and had an "inclination against...
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    Benedictional List of most Catholic saints: Roman Martyrology Martyrology of Usuard Martyrologium Hieronymianum Liberian Catalogue On how the bishop celebrate...
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