Florentius of Peterborough
Saint Frithestan | |
|---|---|
| Saint, Martyr | |
| Died | 7th Century |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Feast | 27 September |
Florentius of Peterborough was a seventh-century saint and martyr.[1][2]
Florentius was a Roman, and is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript.[3]
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript E, Florentius' relics were purchased from Bonneval Abbey[4] and moved to Peterborough Cathedral in 1013 or 1016 by Abbot Ælfsi of Peterborough.[5]
Florentius' was venerated at Peterborough along with Cyneswith[6] and Cyniburg. However, his feast day on 27 September might suggest that he was in reality Florentinus of Sedun, who was martyred by the Vandal persecution.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Propylaeum, pp. 418–19; R.P.S.
- ^ Florentius in the Oxford Dictionary of Saints.
- ^ Stowe MS 944, British Library
- ^ Benneval Abbey is in modern France, but at the time was within the Duchy of Normandy, and hence shared the same ruler as Northhumbria.
- ^ W. T. Mellows and A. Bell, The Peterborough Chronicle of Hugh Candidus (1949).
- ^ Cyneswith had been one of the founders of the Abbey and had been reburied by Ælfsi at Peterborough.
- ^ Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 144, n. 8.
