Acts of Mark in Aquileia

 

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Category: Apocryphal Acts

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Created January 2023.

1. SUMMARY

mark established Christainity in Aquileia

accompanied by Hermachorus, his first successor

first mention of legend in the Liber de episcopis Mettensibus by Paul the Deacon in the 780s

relics said to be there too

 

Just looked up an old email from Luigi: he’s working on a text that he dubs the “Acts of Mark in Aquileia,” which is one of two “Markan prologues” of the Passio Hermachorae er Fortunati.”

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2. RESOURCES

“Hermagoras of Aquilaeia.” Wikipedia.

“Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus.” Christian Iconography.

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Greek

Passio Hermachorae et Fortunati, ed. Paolo Chiesa, in: Emanuela Colombi (ed.), Le passioni dei martiri aquileiesi e istriani 1 (Rome, 2008) 171-188.

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 English

3.3 General Works

Veronese, Francesco, and Gieulia Zornetta. “Holiness on the Move: Relic Translations and the Affirmation of Authority on the Italian Edge of the Carolingian World.” Medieval Worlds 13 (2021): 54–75.

 

  • Butler, III, 84.
  • Butler’s Lives of the Saints. 4 vols. Ed. Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater. New York: P. J. Kennedy and Sons, 1963. Online copy at Archive.org, retrieved 2019-11-12. (This work is a “modernized” abbreviation of Alban Butler’s 18th-century hagiographic compilation. I find it useful for my purposes because it is concise and has bibliographies, but I should note that some have objected to it as unfaithful to the original.)
  • Acta Sanctorum, July vol. 3, 249-257.