ŠV. BONIFACAS XIV–XVI AMŽIUJE ARBA „KAMALDULIŠKOJI“ ŠV. BRUNONO KVERFURTIEČIO PAŽINIMO TRADICIJA*
SAINT BONIFACE IN THE 14TH–16TH CENTURIES or THE CAMALDOLESE TRADITION OF the COGNITION OF SAINT BRUNO OF QUERFURT

Summary/Abstract: The Camaldolese tradition of the cognition of Saint Boniface in the 14th–16th centuries was formed on the basis of The Life of Saint Romuald by Peter Damian (about 1042), whereas Saint Boniface could be known through Saint Romuald. Therefore, the history of life and martyrdom of Saint Boniface in the 14th –16th centuries is embedded in the life of his teacher Saint Romuald. The absence of the date of death of Saint Boniface gave rise to the tradition of the 14th–16th centuries, which was officially established in the 1583 edition of the Roman martyrology, to consider the date of death of Saint Romuald as the commemoration date of Saint Boniface. Petrus de Natalibus (ca. 1330 – ca. 1400) is considered the first presenter of the history of life and martyrdom of Saint Boniface in the form of a manuscript. He added the life of Saint Romuald’s pupil Saint Boniface to the records of June in the Catalogue of Saints (Catalogus Sanctorum) compiled by him at the turning point between the 1360s and the 1370s. Moreover, the first printed version of the saint’s life appeared in the treatise Summa historialis, sive Chronicon by Anthony of Florence (1389–1459) published in Nuremberg in 1484. Probably the first visual presentation of Saint Boniface dates back to the aforementioned Catalogue of Saints by Petrus de Natalibus, published in Lyon in 1514. The presenters of the life of Saint Boniface used to present The Life of Saint Romuald by Peter Da¬mian by retelling it in their own words, shortening and reinterpreting it. Naturally, this gave rise to the “geographic” interpretations of the final mission of the saint, the most important of which is the joining of individual “geographic points” described by Damian into a single – Russia’s / Russian – “point” by elimi-nating the story line of Saint Adalbert and turning the “converting Slavs” into Russians or Russia.

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