The Cult of St. Donatus at Benevento
Thomas
Forrest Kelly
Harvard
University
Donatus,
the fourth-century bishop of Arezzo and that city’s patron saint, is venerated
widely, but most original liturgical materials are found in the two Tuscan
offices known mostly in manuscripts of Arezzo, Florence, and Siena. Owing to
the thorough work of Pierluigi Licciardello and Giovanni Alpigiano, the life,
the versions of the vita, and the Tuscan offices, are well understood.
Recently, another office has been found in a fourteenth-century manuscript of
Benevento; this paper will present this office, its relation to the various
vitae and other offices, and attempt to understand how the cult of the Tuscan
bishop should come to occupy an important place so far from home.
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