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The Innes Review vol. 60 no. 2 (Autumn 2009) 164â169 DOI: 10.3366/E0020157X09000511 Reading the literature produced by a saintâs cult, it is always worth watching out for references â sometimes veiled, sometimes explicit â to relics associated with that saint. The vitae, poetry, liturgy and stories associated with a saint should be read as the surviving literary echo of a cult which once embraced far more than literature: feasts, church dedications, altar dedications, processions, pilgrimages, fairs, devotional poetry and song, holy places such as wells or rocks, personal names in honour of the saint, and the cult of relics, to name a few in no particular order â mostly the sort of thing that was largely suppressed in the sixteenth century in Scotland under the rubric of âmonuments of idolatryâ. If we imagine a saintâs vita as having crystallised out of this kind of âsolutionâ of energetic devotional practices, it makes sense to study the vita for indications of what this âsolutionâ might have looked like. Reading Adomnánâs Life of Columba in this way may point us towards one aspect of his cult which has hitherto not been commented on.1 The Life [VC] is divided into three books.
Innes Review – Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 1, 2009
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