Thread:The Lord Reader/@comment-5275759-20200506173103/@comment-25431873-20201019144707


 * St Andrew/Andrew the Apostle: rescues a boy from his incestuous mother, an act resulting in her laying false charges against them, requiring God to send an earthquake to free Andrew and the boy. (Source)
 * St Vitus: Some interpretations claim that Svetovit was another name for Radegast, while another states that he was a fake god, a Wendish construction based on the name St. Vitus. However, the common practice of the Christian Church was to replace existing pagan deities and places of worship with analogous persons and rituals of Christian content, so it seems more likely that Saint Vitus was created to replace the original Svanto-Vit. (Source)
 * I'm not sure what the "divine punishment" refers to.
 * St Sebastian: Another one I didn't find. There was one book claiming association between St. Sebastian, Sucellus, and Woden (Germanic Odin), but nothing about Cù Chulainn.
 * St Ursula: While there was a tradition of virgin martyrs in Cologne by the fifth century, their number may have been limited to between two and eleven, according to different sources. Yet the cleric Wandelbert of the Abbey of Prüm stated in his martyrology in 848 that the number of martyrs counted "thousands of saints" who were slaughtered on the boards of the River Rhine.[10] The 11,000 were first mentioned in the late 9th century; suggestions as to where this number came from have included the reading of the name Undecimillia or Ximillia as a number, or reading the abbreviation XI. M. V. as 'eleven thousand [in Roman numerals] virgins' rather than 'eleven martyred virgins'. One scholar has suggested that in the eighth or ninth century, when the relics of virgin martyrs were found, they included those of a girl named Ursula, who was eleven years old—in Latin, undecimilia. This was subsequently misread or misinterpreted as undicimila ('eleven thousand'), thus producing the legend of the 11,000 virgins.[11] In fact, the stone bearing the virgin Ursula's name states that she lived eight years and two months. Another theory is that there was only one virgin martyr, named Undecimilla, "which by some blundering monk was changed into eleven thousand".[12] It has also been suggested that cum [...] militibus, "with [...] soldiers", was misread as cum [...] millibus, "with [...] thousands". (Source)
 * St Christopher: the idea that he is considered fictional in the Catholic Church is a widespread misconception apparently stemming from changes in the calendar in the 60s (Source)
 * St Benedict of Nursia: St Benedict's own abbey of Monte Cassino was sacked and deserted during the the Lombard invasions, in 580 A.D. Meanwhile, the abbey of Fleury had been founded near Orléans not long before 550; and its second abbot conceived the ambition of securing St Benedict's body for his house. He was seconded by one Aigulf, whose zeal for monastic discipline, as abbot of Lérins, finally earned him martyrdom and and canonization . Aigulf, in these early years only a young monk of Fleury, undertook the journey to Italy on his abbot's behalf. St Benedict himself favoured the project by a miraculous light, which guided Aigulf by night to the hidden tomb; he broke it open, found the bones of the Saint and his sister Scholastica, and carried them off in a basket. [...] These pious thieves, under favour of a dense cloud which the Almighty sent to hide them from the papal soldiers, reached Fleury safely; and the holy bones marked their road with miracles. (Source)
 * St Vincent of Saragossa: According to a medieval account of the saint's life, the floor of the tower was covered with sharp pieces of broken pottery, but these miraculously changed to flower petals when Vincent was imprisoned. (Source)