Florentius of Peterborough
Florentius of Peterborough was a seventh century Catholic Saint and Martyr.[1][2]
He 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, his relics were purchased from Bonneval Abbey[4] and moved to Peterborough Cathedral in 1013AD (or 1016) by Abbot Ælfsi of Peterborough.[5]
He was venerated at Peterborough with those of 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
- ↑ 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 Duchie 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.
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