Liturgy and Healing in an Early Medieval Saint's Cult: The Mass in honore sancti Sigismundi for the Cure of Fevers

In The Glory of the Martyrs, a collection of miracle stories completed by the early 590s, Bishop Gregory of Tours included a chapter on the Burgundian king Sigismund. A Catholic convert from the Arian Christianity of his father, Sigismund had founded a monastery at Agaune, the present St.-Maurice, S...

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Main Author: Paxton, Frederick S. (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press 1994
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Year: 1994, Volume: 49, Pages: 23-43
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