In c.600 AD, Pope Gregory sent Augustine of Canterbury the relics of Sixtus II to replace those of an unknown British St Sixtus…https://twitter.com/PeritiaEditors/status/894094460736290816 …
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St Augustine and Pope Gregory on the cult of St Sixtus that he encountered in L6thC England: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lE_TafAcVkUC&lpg=PA77&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/KesM0QqcIf
My ignorance (or bad memory!) why couldn't it be one of the several 'international' sixtuses. Is there an explicit mention of a local saint?
Brooks argues that nature of the request & response implies an otherwise-unknown, local British saint & cult :) In his Canterbury vol, fwiw.
Thanks for taking time, Caitlin. Always enjoy your twitter feed.
Thanks :) I can give you more if interested when back with my books, if of interest — think key point is that both St A~ & Pope G~ seem to >
> indicate that it's a cult A~ has encountered in Britain and that the St Sixtus in question is otherwise unknown to A & G :)
Could you give me a reference for where Nicholas Brooks argues this, please? Thanks
Mentioned in R. Gameson, St Augustine and the Conversion of England (Stroud, 1999), p. 146 :)
[Can get you other refs later, but not with books at present! :) ]
St Osyth continued to be known interchangeably as Chiche throughout the C16 - not sure about thereafter
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