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In 790, Angilbert retired to the abbey of Centulum, the "Monastery of St Richarius" (Sancti Richarii monasterium) at present-day Saint-Riquier in Picardy. [5] Elected abbot in 794, [ 5 ] he rebuilt the monastery and endowed it with a library of 200 volumes. [ 1 ]
Saint Colman of Lindisfarne, Bishop of Lindisfarne and Confessor (676) [1] [9] [15] [17] [note 6] Saint Ethelina (Eudelme), the patroness of Little Sodbury, now in Gloucestershire in England. [15] Saint Angilbert, Abbot of St. Riquier in the north of France where there were some 300 monks (c. 740–814) [15] [18]
The reliquary and skull of Saint Ivo of Kermartin (St. Yves or St. Ives; 1253–1303), in Tréguier, Brittany, France Shrine of Saint Lachtin's Arm, 12th century, Irish. In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. [1]
In 835, Angilbert II, Bishop of Milan, placed the relics of the three saints in a porphyry sarcophagus, where they were found in January 1864. [ 7 ] A tradition claims that, after the destruction of Milan by Frederick Barbarossa , his chancellor, Rainald of Dassel , had taken the relics from Milan and deposited them at Breisach in Germany ...
Among other valuable relics, the treasury possesses a copper cross said to be the work of Saint Eloi (Eligius). In 1536 Saint-Riquier repulsed an attack by the Germans, during its defense the women especially distinguishing themselves. In 1544 it was burned by the English, an event that marks the beginning of its decline. Abbey church, Saint ...
A number of rare religious relics were uncovered in 2024, with some on display to the public, ... Saint Titus was a first-century Christian missionary and disciple of Paul the Apostle.
Relics in Prüm Abbey. According to tradition, a Roman lady named Felicitas secured the half-consumed remains of the father and sons and also the mother's body from the well, and had the sacred relics secretly interred on her estate at Buxus, today Boccea. This is said to have occurred on January 20. [2]
A relic from the Holy Catacombs of Pancratius.Image taken at an exhibition at the Historical Museum St. Gallen in Wil, Switzerland. Catacomb saints were the bodies of ancient Christians that were carefully exhumed from the catacombs of Rome and sent abroad to serve as relics of certain saints from the 16th century to the 19th century. [1]