Analecta Bollandiana

• Summary: Teterius, dean of Nevers Cathedral, lived in the second half of the 10th cent.  He composed at least three homilies and a hagiographic text (BHL 1811).  The Virgin Mary, to whom he was particularly devoted, is said to have healed him with her milk when he was on the verge of death.  This Miracle, the memory of which was apparently preserved in Cluniac circles and through an inscription, is pub­lished here for the first time, thanks to its inclusion in a Latin collection of Miracles of the Virgin, a little-known model for the Lyon Mariale in the Oïl dialect.  It was also, in an altered form, recounted orally to Peter Damian and reported in several accounts that modify or omit the names of Teterius and Nevers.  In the appendix, based on the same collection, the following Miracle is published, which, judging by the language and style, appears to be by the same author.

• Summary: This study examines the hagiographical libellus forming the first codicological unit of MS. Saint-Omer, BM, 764 (10th cent.).  It refines its dating, identifies its sources and authors, and brings to light the factors that led to its production.  In this way, it reveals a noteworthy case of the promotion and dissemination of a new cult – that of Sts Wandregisilus and Ansbertus – supported by the production of several identical hagiographical libelli.  Although all of these have now disappeared, with the sole exception of the one incorporated into the codex 764, these libelli can nonetheless be reconstructed retrospectively on the basis of later legendaries, whose codicological and philological analysis reveals the textual filiation.

• Summary: The MS. Parisinus gr. 259 preserves an excerpt from an Office in honour of St Quintianus, a little-known saint of Late Antiquity, pre­vi­ously known only as the bishop of Seleucia in Pamphylia and a participant in the First Ecumeni­cal Council.  The present contribution offers the first critical edition of this Office, whose significance lies in the fact that it enriches our knowledge of this forgotten saint and his veneration over time, as it contains previously unknown testimony about the existence of a church dedicated to him, the circumstances of its con­struc­tion, his relics, and the miracles attributed to him.  Additionally, the Office constitutes an exceptionally valuable witness to the saint’s cult during the 11th-12th cent., the period to which the sole known manuscript tran­smitting it is dated.

• Summary: Inspired by the study of some Armenian texts transmitted by the scriptio inferior of a Vatican palimpsest (Vat. sir. 623), this article aims to identify the fragments contained in two London papyri (Or. 6016 and 7558[85]) with the Cop­tic Passion of Varos (cf. BHO 1241), of which only Greek and Armenian versions were known so far.

• Summary: In 1666, the Office of St Francis de Sales, canonised in 1665, was included in the Roman Breviary, with specific lessons for the second nocturn.  The article analyses the elements of this Office, before focusing on the increased solemnity that some dioceses – in particular that of Geneva – and religious Orders accorded to the saint, generally raising the degree of celebration of the feast, or even, as at the Visitation, accompanying the Office with unusual modes of chant.  The rewriting of the lessons in the Neo-Gallican breviaries is the subject of the last part; the account they contain, emphasising the links between the saint and France, focuses on the factual aspects of his life.

• Bernard Joassart. Une accusation d’hypercriticisme autour de sainte Mélanie la Jeune.
  Un article d’Albert Poncelet refusé par la censure romaine

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